"Based on the information we have received so far, the ship could have avoided going to Ukraine. In a written statement read out by Shakhawat, the organisation also raised various questions about the decision to send the ship to a 'war zone'. Another information we came to know about is that there was another ship of BSC under the same charter. The authorities declared abandoned the Bangladeshi ship, as the sailors started moving to nearby bunkers on Thursday for evacuation to Poland. The sailors, including two female cadets, left the ship in tugboat about 7:30pm Bangladesh standard time, said Pijush Dutta, executive director of BSC.

Source: bd News24 March 04, 2022 12:49 UTC