All crews of sunken Korean ship fly after interrogation
Monday, 9 May 2011
Our Correspondent
CHITTAGONG, May 8: The crews of North Korean flag vessel MV Hyang Ro Bong which sank in the Chittagong Port's outer anchorage have left Bangladesh securing permission from the probe committee constituted for investigating the incident. All the 41 foreign crews of the ship have left the country. The last batch of nine crews flew off Dhaka Shahjalal International Airport on Saturday night while 32 others left for North Korea last night, said Captain Mohiuddin Kader, CEO of Interport Maritime Ltd. He is looking after legal aspects of the Korean Co in Bangladesh. The Korean vessel sank at the Bravo Anchorage of the port with 13492 MT rice as it dashed a Bangladesh flag vessel MV BangaLanka of the HRC Group on April 6 last. Following the incident a probe committee with Engineer Sirajul Islam, ship surveyor of the Mercantile Marine Department under the Ministry of Shipping, was formed to investigate the incident and submit report to the ministry within seven days. The probe committee asked the crews of the ship until completion of the investigation as their statement was necessary for identifying the causes of the accident. Engineer Sirajul Islam said that he has completed the investigation recently and allowed the crews to leave Bangladesh. "I have interrogated the crews and enquired on available clues separately with them." Earlier, Captain Mohiuddin Kader alleged that the port authority had detained the foreign crews and officers for a long time in the name of investigation. He also threatened to go to the court against the CPA. The CPA chairman commodore Anwarul Islam said the allegation is not at all true and the authority did not detain them.
CHITTAGONG, May 8: The crews of North Korean flag vessel MV Hyang Ro Bong which sank in the Chittagong Port's outer anchorage have left Bangladesh securing permission from the probe committee constituted for investigating the incident. All the 41 foreign crews of the ship have left the country. The last batch of nine crews flew off Dhaka Shahjalal International Airport on Saturday night while 32 others left for North Korea last night, said Captain Mohiuddin Kader, CEO of Interport Maritime Ltd. He is looking after legal aspects of the Korean Co in Bangladesh. The Korean vessel sank at the Bravo Anchorage of the port with 13492 MT rice as it dashed a Bangladesh flag vessel MV BangaLanka of the HRC Group on April 6 last. Following the incident a probe committee with Engineer Sirajul Islam, ship surveyor of the Mercantile Marine Department under the Ministry of Shipping, was formed to investigate the incident and submit report to the ministry within seven days. The probe committee asked the crews of the ship until completion of the investigation as their statement was necessary for identifying the causes of the accident. Engineer Sirajul Islam said that he has completed the investigation recently and allowed the crews to leave Bangladesh. "I have interrogated the crews and enquired on available clues separately with them." Earlier, Captain Mohiuddin Kader alleged that the port authority had detained the foreign crews and officers for a long time in the name of investigation. He also threatened to go to the court against the CPA. The CPA chairman commodore Anwarul Islam said the allegation is not at all true and the authority did not detain them.