Fire on BSC oil tanker, 3 bodies recovered 

CHATTOGRAM, Sept 30: Three bodies were recovered on Monday after fire broke out on state-owned oil tanker  'MT Bangla Jyoti' when it was unloading crude oil at the Dolphin Jetty of  Chattogram Port.

The victims have been identified as Nurul Islam, the chargeman at BSC Marine Workshop, Md Harun from Kishoreganj, a daily wage worker at BSC and Saurabh Kumar Saha from Jhenaidah, an ex-cadet at Barishal Marine Academy.

The Fire Service announced the recovery of the bodies on Monday afternoon.

The fire was brought under control at around 2pm, said Mohammad Abdullah, deputy assistant director of the Agrabad Fire Service Station. 

Fire fighters recovered the bodies from the oil tanker.

Omar Faruk, secretary of Chattogram Port Authority (CPA) said that the fire broke out following an explosion at a state-owned Bangladesh Shipping Corporation (BSC)  crude oil carrying old ship near Dolphin Jetty number seven of city's Patenga area.

 The tanker was unloading around 11,000 tonnes of crude oil.

The fire fighters of CPA, along with the Bangladesh Navy, Coast Guard, and Fire Service and Civil Defence officials dispatched tugboats and fire fighting vessels to control the blaze. 

The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained.