<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;">A search operation is underway to find the missing persons after a trawler capsized when it collided with a bulkhead in a tributary of the Padma river near Munshiganj’s Louhajang upazila.</span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">BIWTA Deputy Director Obaidul Karim Khan said the search and rescue team is trying to rescue the capsized trawler.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Meanwhile, the Coast Guard as well as Fire Service and Civil Defence divers are searching for missing people in the area.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Eight bodies have been recovered so far from the trawler that sank with 46 passengers on board after colliding with a bulkhead on Saturday evening.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">At least five people, including two children and three women, are still missing, said Munshiganj Deputy Commissioner Md. Abu jafar Ripon.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The trawler carrying picnic-goers was returning from Khidirpara union in Sirajdikhan upazila to the Padma Bridge area.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The district administration has formed a five-member inquiry to identify the cause of the accident, DC Ripon said. The bulkhead – involved in the incident – has been seized. UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>