At least six workers from the Export Processing Zone (EPZ) went missing after two passenger trawlers collided head-on on the Mongla River in Bagerhat on Tuesday night. The accident occurred around 9 p.m. near the Mongla ferry terminal area. Witnesses and survivors reported that about 50 workers boarded a trawler after their factory shift ended, and it collided with another passenger trawler coming from the opposite direction, throwing around 20 people into the river.

Local residents helped rescue several workers who managed to swim ashore, but five to six people remain missing. Following the incident, the Fire Service, Coast Guard, Navy, and police launched a joint rescue operation. According to Mongla Police Station’s officer-in-charge Atikur Rahman, the search operation is ongoing in the river to locate the missing workers.

Authorities continue the search efforts, with local assistance, to recover those still unaccounted for in the Mongla River.