A Bangladeshi ship docked at a port in Ukraine. An engineer has died.
Bangladesh ship MV Bangla was anchored in Ukraine’s Alvia port. The ship was stuck after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. According to local sources, a Russian shell hit a ship in Ukraine on Wednesday afternoon. As a result, the ship caught fire. Death is an engineer. His name is Hadisur Rahman. He was the ship’s third engineer.
Commodore Suman Mahmood Sabbir, managing director of Bangladesh Shipping Corporation (BSC), told bdnews24.com: “A shell hit the ship. It exploded on the bridge. Hadisur Rahman, the third engineer of the ship, died while working there. The other 26 people on board are safe. The fire has been doused.
The ship has enough food and supplies, the BSC said. The other sailors and engineers of the ship were informed by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and officials of the Ministry of Shipping, the BSC said.
The crew posted a video saying ‘save us’ after the ship caught fire. Atiqur Rahman Munna, a sailor in the prosperity of Bengal, wrote in his Facebook post, ‘The ship was hit by a rocket. One died.’
A video posted on a Facebook page called Kurdish Global shows a ship exploding and catching fire. The Facebook post quoted Ukrainian port officials as saying, two tugboats were later sent there from the port.
The ship had left the Indian port of Mumbai on 26 January. The ship landed at a port in Turkey and landed in Ukraine. After that the fighting began and the ship could not leave the port of Ukraine.