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Bodies of missing crew found
The bodies of the two missing crew were recovered from the sunken clinker-laden vessel yesterday. Divers of Mongla Port Authority (MPA) and Bangladesh Navy recovered the bodies of Murad Sheikh, son of Abu Sheikh, and Shahadat Sheikh, 22, son of Kanchan Sheikh of Dhalaierchar village in Alfadanga upazila of Faridpur at around 1:15pm. The vessel could not be salvaged from Passur River as of 5:00pm yesterday. According to Mongla Port Authority, the vessel, MV Moksedpur, with 10 crew on board, sank in the river near the port when it was unloading clinker from a mother vessel at around 6:00pm on Sunday morning. Crew Murad and Shahadat went missing while the rest eight managed to swim ashore.
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