Vessel capsizes in Ctg port
A lighter vessel with around 1700 tonnes of steel coils capsized at the outer anchorage of Chittagong Port yesterday.
The vessel's all the ten crews managed to save their lives by getting on board a mother vessel anchored beside it.
Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) Secretary Syed Farhad Uddin Ahmed said movement of ships through the port channel was normal.
The lighter vessel's master Abdus Sobhan said the accident occurred when workers of "MV Chisti Shohan" were unloading the steel coils from a Hong Kong flagged mother vessel "IPANEMA" anchored at alpha point of the anchorage around 9:45am.
Some coils suddenly rolled back to the rear portion of the vessel causing it tilted, he said adding that it capsized within 15 minutes.
Mercantile Marine Department (MMD) in Chittagong formed a three-member committee to probe accident. The committee was asked to submit its report within five working days.
Meanwhile, some local boatmen brought an unidentified body from the outer anchorage after the accident, police said.
Potenga Police Station Officer-in-Charge M Alamgir Hossain said they were investigating that whether the dead person appeared to be an outsider died in the accident or not, they said.
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