All-out efforts underway to rescue sailors: Foreign Minister 

Foreign Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has said that the government has continued all-out efforts to rescue the hijacked Bangladeshi-flagged cargo ship MV Abdullah and its 23 sailors.

The foreign minister said this while talking to journalists after a program in Rangunia of Chattogram on Friday (March 15).

Discussions with various groups are ongoing in a bid to rescue the hijacked ship, he added. 

Referring the past experience, he hoped that they would be able to release the ship along with the crew safely, without any casualties or damage. 

On previous incident in 2010, a Bangladesh-flagged vessel, MV Jahan Moni was hijacked by pirates in the Arabian sea off the coast of India. The hostage twenty-five crew members and the wife of chief officer were rescued with the ship after nearly 100 days, he said.