Pirates abduct three
Pirates on Sunday night abducted three fishermen from Porakatla canal of the river Malancha in the Sundarbans and demanded Tk 45,000 ransom. The pirates held the three hostage in the deep forest and asked the family of each for Tk 15,000, police said. Nineteen fishermen with three boats went to the Sundarbans on Thursday taking permission from the Kaikhali Forest Office in the Sundarbans. While they were asleep the pirates swooped on their boats and abducted the three out of 19 for ransom. The victims are Mongal Kumar Mondal, Bimal Kumar and Subhas Chandra of village Munshiganj in Shyamnagar upazila.
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