The BNP yesterday alleged that a lack of coordination was causing the delay in the rescue operations of the Pinak 6 launch which sank in the Padma River on Monday.
“There was some mismanagement in the rescue operations. If the previous accidents had been investigated properly and steps had been taken as per the investigation reports, this [Pinak 6 launch] accident could have been averted,” the party’s Vice-Chairman Shah Moazzem Hossain said yesterday.
Following the direction of the party chairperson, Moazzem led a delegation of some 10 to 15 other party leaders to Mawa Ghat to express their condolences to the victims’ families.
The BNP leader alleged that mismanagement was everywhere in the government because it had assumed office without the people’s mandate.
He said around 500 accidents had taken place across the country, leaving more than 10,000 people dead, only after this government had assumed power.
The delegation team offered a prayer for the deceased at Mawa Ghat area, seeking the eternal peace of those who had died in Monday’s launch accident.