Two Tourists and Resort Manager Rescued After Kidnapping in Sundarbans
Law enforcement agencies have rescued two tourists and a resort manager who were abducted while traveling in a canal inside the Sundarbans.
On Sunday night (4 January), the Coast Guard and police conducted a joint operation and successfully recovered the three individuals.
OC Md Atikur Rahman of Dakop Police Station in Khulna confirmed the information to the media.
The OC said the rescue took place in the area adjacent to a resort in Baniashanta Union of Dakop upazila during the joint operation. He added that a detailed press briefing on the matter will be held.
Earlier, on Friday afternoon (2 January), the resort owner Shri Pati Bachar along with three tourists (two men and one woman) were taken hostage by armed forest dacoits while traveling in a boat in a small canal near the Dhangmari area of Chandpai Range in the Sundarbans. The group had come from Dhaka for a trip and had booked accommodation at the “Gol Kanon” resort in Dhangmari with the plan to spend the night there.
During the boat ride in the canal adjacent to the resort in the afternoon, the armed dacoits abducted five people, including a woman. Later that night, the two female tourists were released, but the resort owner Shri Pati Bachar and the two male tourists remained in captivity. The dacoits contacted the families of the hostages and demanded a large ransom.
