Police recovered a man’s dead body from the Sugandha River near Nalcity upazila in Jhalakathi yesterday. The man’s relatives claim that he was a passenger on the capsized Pinak-6.
Abul Khair, officer-in-charge of Nalcity police station, said people from Magor village saw a body floating on the river and informed police around 7:30am yesterday.
Police rushed to the spot and recovered the corpse, which was wearing a checked-shirt and white pants.
After searching the pants pockets, police recovered a mobile phone set from which they recovered the SIM and called a number saved on it.
The person who received the call said the phone belonged to Mintu Molla, 24, the son of Salam Molla from Krishnadia village under Moksudpur upazila of Gopalganj district, said the OC.
Mintu was a cloth merchant at Sylhet and he was returning to his workplace after spending the Eid vacation at his native village. He was thought to be one of the missing passengers from Pinak-6, said Mintu's uncle Abdur Rahman.
On hearing about the recovery of the body, Mintu’s relatives rushed to Nalcity police station and after going through certain formalities, they collected the body from police, said the OC of Nalcity police station.
