BCSIR submits report to CPA

Bangladesh Council of Science and Industrial Research (BCSIR) laboratory, based in the port city, submitted the report of chemical test yesterday, they added.

An official of the CPA, seeking anonymity, said: " We will now go ahead on the basis of the report and other findings of the investigation to draw proceedings against the oil tanker MT Banglar Sourav of Bangladesh Shipping Corporation".

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"The chemical test has revealed massive pollution of water at the port channel with the spillage of huge quantity of crude oil from the tanker" the official said quoting the report.

"Consequently, the polluted water was harmful for marine life and human health, and unfit for industrial use," he added.

Meanwhile, the probe body, formed by the shipping ministry, submitted its report on Sunday in which the master, chief officer and other deck officers were held responsible for oil pollution while it was engaged in lightering imported crude oil at the outer anchorage, officials said.

The seven-member probe body was headed by Director General of Shipping Ahsanul Azim.