Bakolia police take 39 fortune-seekers into safe custody after their rescue from Shah Amanat Bridge area in the port city while they were being trafficked to Malaysia through waterway on Thursday. sun photo Human trafficking continues unabated through different coastal areas of Chittagong and Cox’s Bazar as innocent people are frequently getting trapped by trafficking gangs. Organised gangs of human traffickers are engaged in sending poor and innocent people to Malaysia with the help of law-enforcers, many people alleged. They send people to Malaysia in engine boats through different river and sea routes, including Teknaf, Kutubdia, Katabunia and Maheshkhali under Cox’s Bazar and Chittagong. In the latest such incident, law-enforcers in separate drives rescued 65 people from different places of Cox’s Bazar and Chittagong districts on Thursday. A gang of human traffickers tried to send them to Malaysia with a promise to provide them with lucrative jobs there, police sources said. In Chittagong, police in a drive rescued 39 Malaysia-bound fortune seekers from Shah Amanat Bridge area of the port city in the morning. Acting on a tip-off, a police team stopped a passenger bus in the city’s Shah Amanat Bridge area around 11:00am and rescued them. But law-enforcers failed to nab any person involved in the incident. Our Chittagong correspondent adds: The victims were gathered in the port city from Sylhet, Shariatpur and Narshingdi two days back and kept in hotels and slums, said Officer-in-Charge (OC) Mohammad Mohsin of Bakolia police station. Some brokers got the victims on board of the bus bound for Chakaria in the morning to send them to Malaysia in engine boats, he added. A man of Narshingdi district brought them in Chittagong for sending to Malaysia in return for Tk 2 lakh per head from the brokers. The brokers kept mobile phone sets of the fortune seekers with them, the OC said adding none could be arrested in this connection. In Cox’s Bazar, police rescued 26 Malaysia-bound people from human traffickers in Goalia Palang area under Ramu upazila of the district early Thursday. The OC of Ramu police station told newsmen that on secret information, law-enforcers conducted a drive in the area and detained them at around 1:30am. Those rescued hail from Jessore, Norial, Kishoreganj, Bogra and other districts, he said. Detective sources said trafficking gangs in collusion with with their Malaysian middlemen are trafficking Bangladeshi people in exchange of huge sum of money. Trapped by the human traffickers, many poor people are going to Malaysia by engine-trawler on river route to make their fortune, risking their lives. Very often, trawlers carrying fortune seekers capsize claiming the lives of many people. Local people blamed inaction of the law-enforcing agencies for the rise in human trafficking and smuggling of deadly drugs like Yaba and heroin into the country. BGB director general (DG) Major General Abdul Aziz recently said, “They have intensified surveillance at different border points to check human trafficking and smuggling of deadly drugs.
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