Bangladeshi Navy divers during are pictured during training exercises in the Bay of Bengal -© US NAVY/AFP/File
DHAKA: A joint patrol team of Bangladesh coast guards and navy detained a trawler in the Bay of Bengal on Tuesday, 21 May after it was cast adrift with 116 Malaysia-bound illegal migrants on board, a coast guard commander said.
“There were 116 illegal migrants in the fishing trawler. They are all Bangladeshis,” coast guard station commander Dickson Chowdhury told AFP by phone. -AFP