Pirates kidnap 8 in Laxmipur
Pirates abducted eight employees of a fish trader along with a trawler having 150 maunds of hilsa on board in the Meghna River near Sebagram village in Ramgoti upazila on Friday night.
Selim Bepari, fish trader of Hatiya upazila of Noakhali said, a gang of pirates of infamous 'Babul Bahini' swooped on his Chandpur bound hired fishing trawler, FB Siddique, near Sebagram and took away the hilsa laden trawler along with his eight employees at gunpoint.
When contacted, coast guard Ramgoti contingent commander Mohammad Abdur Rashid told UNB that they were conducting drives in the coastal areas to rescue the trawler and abducted employees.
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