Bagerhat: Bangladesh Coast Guard members recovered the bodies of three more Indian fishermen on Tuesday morning, three days after an Indian fishing trawler capsized in the Bay of Bengal near Hiron point of the Sundarbans.

With this, the bodies of eight fishermen have so far been recovered in connection with the trawler capsize while six others still missing, UNB reported quoting commander of Coast Guard Mongla West Zone Captain Kazi Mehedi Masud.

He said a team of coastguards pulled out the sunken trawler, ‘FV Moha Gouri’, from near Bangabandhu Char of the bay in the morning. Later, they fished out three more bodies from the trawler,

The bodies will be handed over to Khulna’s Dakope Police, Masud said.

Earlier on Sunday, a joint team of Bangladesh Coast Guard and Navy rescued three fishermen and recovered five bodies from the Bay of Bengal after the trawler had capsized

The trawler with 17 fishermen sank in the bay, 30 nautical miles off the Hiron point of Mogla port, on Saturday afternoon.