The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Dhaka

The decomposed bodies of six more Sidr victims were recovered from Sundarbans and Sharankhola upazila on Wednesday, nearly two months after the disaster.

Local people found the bodies of five fishermen at Chhaprakhali of Sharankhola range of Sundarbans and another body of a woman in a paddy field at Tafalbari village in Sharankhola.

The bodies of the five fishermen were buried at Chhaprakhali while the woman at her family graveyard at Tafalbari.

The deceased were identified as Harez Fakir, 45, Abdul Sharif, 50, and Sagir Hossain of Kadamtala village, Zakir Hossain, 35, of Amragachhia village, Karim Miah, 36, and Sufia Begum, 65, of Tafalbari village in Sharankhola upazila.

Sharankhola UNO Shah Newaz Talukdar confirmed the body recovery of the woman but could not confirm the body recovery of five others in Sundarbans.

Fish trader of Kadamtala village Ridul Sharif, however, said that he along with some other local people went to Sundarbans to search the body of his father but they found the five bodies.

Relatives of the deceased identified the bodies and buried those in the Sundarbans as the bodies were totally rotten.

The government has so far confirmed the death of 819 people by Sidr in the district, including 698 in Sharankhola, according to official count.