Kandari-2 starts \\\'search\\\' in Padma

Tugboat ‘Kandari-2’ has arrived at Mawa with powerful search equipment to locate the launch that sank last Monday with around 350 people on board. So far, 110 passengers of Pinak-6 have been rescued and bodies of 21 recovered but the medium-sized double-decker is still to be found. A temporary control room of the local administration at the Mawa Ferry Terminal at Munshiganj said it had a list of 123 missing passengers. Kandari-2 is carrying equipment from Jarip-10 which was originally sent out from the Chittagong Port on Tuesday but had to turn back due to bad weather. Its scanner can locate objects as deep as 250 feet underwater while the previously used sonar could scan 75 feet. The tugboat, equipped with ‘side scan sonar’, GPS and ‘sub-bottom propeller’, started looking for Pinak-6 around Wednesday midnight, its Captain ‘Manjur’ said. Joint searches have failed to yield any result with bereaved relatives of missing passengers thronged the riversides, according to bdnews24.com.