Trawler capsizes with 6,000 sacks of rice in Bagerhat

A bulkhead ship named MV Shahajada-6, has sunk in Bagerhat's Mongla upazila carrying 6,000 sacks of rice.

The incident took place on Sunday afternoon (March 31) when a lighterage ship hit the bulkhead in Poshur river.

Sources said the bulkhead left Khulna food warehouse for Bagerhat on Sunday morning. Later, it capsized carrying 6,180 sacks of government rice.

Confirming the matter, Mongla naval police in-charge Syed Fakhrul Islam said that the lighterage ship MV Shahajada-6 was seized as it hit the rice-laden bulkhead.