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Eight bodies had been recovered after a boat with scores of Rohingya people aboard capsized in the Bay of Bengal close to Bangladesh's southeastern border with Myanmar, a local police official said on Monday.
Md Ashrafuzzaman, a local police official, told Xinhua that "bodies of four children and four women were recovered this morning," adding that some 40 others people were missing in the incident.
He could not tell exactly when the boat capsized but guessed that it may capsize sometime early Monday.
The official said Border Guard, Navy and Coast Guard have rushed there to recover the bodies which were floating in the Bay of Bengal near Shah Porir Island in Teknaf sub-district of the Cox's Bazaar district, some 292 km southeast of Dhaka.
"We have come to know that some 40 Rohingyas still remained missing after the boat packed with some 70 Rohingyas capsized in the bay of Bengal," Islam said.
Quoting several survivors he said some 20 passengers of the sunken boat managed to swim ashore after it capsized.
Last week, at least 28 bodies were recovered after a boat with Rohingyas on board capsized at the mouth of the Naf river that divides Myanmar and Bangladesh.
Bodies of 132 Rohingyas and a Bangladeshi boat man were recovered from the Naf River in at least 25 boat incidents since Aug. 29.
Over half a million Rohingya people have fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar's Rakhine state amid a fresh wave of violence in the region since Aug. 25.
(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)
