7 on Ship Hacked to Death After Being Given Sleeping Pills: RAB

Seven individuals were brutally murdered on the cargo vessel MV Al-Bakhera, carrying fertilizer, in the Meghna River at Haimchar, Chandpur. The killings involved administering sleeping pills and attacking the victims with a sharp weapon.

On Wednesday (December 25), Lieutenant Colonel Munim Ferdous, RAB's Director of the Law and Media Wing disclosed this information after citing the perpetrator Akash Mandal Irfan.

According to Colonel Munim Ferdous, Akash Mandal Irfan committed the murders out of frustration over unpaid wages and mistreatment. He claimed that the ship's master, Golam Kibria, had not paid salaries for the last eight months and often behaved rudely. Driven by anger and resentment, Irfan murdered everyone on board.

The RAB official stated that Irfan first rendered everyone unconscious by mixing sleeping pills into their food. He then wore gloves and attacked the victims with a Chinese axe. After ensuring their deaths, he piloted the vessel to the Haimchar area, escaped on another trawler, and fled.

Colonel Munim also mentioned that Irfan killed the others as they witnessed the murder of Master Golam Kibria.

Earlier, on Sunday, seven bodies were recovered from a stationary vessel in the Meghna River near Harina Ferry Ghat in Chandpur.