Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) flagged ship sank in the Bay of Bengal Thursday afternoon at outer anchorage of Bangladesh's Chittagong port, 242 km southeast of capital Dhaka, after it collided with another ship.
Syed Farhad Uddin Ahmad, secretary of the Chittagong port, told Xinhua by phone Thursday that the ship collided with another ship late Wednesday night and sank on Thursday afternoon at the outer anchorage of the port.
Ahmad said three of five compartments of the ship MV Hang Robong were flooded after a crack developed following the collision.
He said that most part of the ship went down under water.
According to Chittagong Port Radio Control, the DPRK ship carrying 31 crew and 13,492 tons of rice entered the outer anchorage at about 11:30 p.m. local time Wednesday and tilted after dashing with another ship. The 31 crew members of the ship were safe and were transferred to another ship.
The secretary of the port said the ship might be brought to the bank with the help of another ship.
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