Two people including the prime accused on Tuesday were arrested in connection with the recovery of 10 bodies from a fishing trawler in the coastal area of the Bay of Bengal in Cox’s Bazar on Sunday.   

The arrestees are prime accused Baitta Kamal and No.4 accused Karim Sikdar.  

Md Mahfuzul Islam, superintendent of police (SP) of the district, said they arrested the duo from Maheshkhali’s Matarbari and adjoining area on Tuesday.  

During the primary interrogation, the arrestees admitted that they were involved with the killing of the 10 fishermen, the SP claimed.

The arrestees will be produced before a court with a prayer for remand for unveiling more information about the sensational incident, the SP said.   

Earlier, Rokeya Akter, wife of one of the victims Shamsul Islam, filed a murder case accusing four identified individuals including the duo and 60 unidentified ones at Cox’s Bazar Sadar police station on Monday.

Asked whether all the victims were pirates, he said, “It is not clear yet now, however deceased Shamsul Islam and Nurul Kabir were accused of drugs and robbery cases respectively.”

Read more: 10 bodies recovered from fishing trawler in Cox’s Bazar

Half-composed bodies of 10 people were recovered from the fishing trawler from Nazira point of Cox's Bazar sea beach on Sunday. 

The fishing trawler was towed to the shore by unidentified people.  The trawler went missing two to three weeks ago. The trawler was caught in the net of another fishing trawler, which subsequently pulled it to Sonadia channel in Maheshkhali.

Among them were Shamsul Alam, 23; Saiful Islam, 18; Sawkat Ullah, 18; Osman Gani, 17; Saifullah, 23; Parvez Musharraf, 14; Nurul Kabir, 28; Saiful Islam, 34; Mohammad Shahjahan, 35; and Tarek Zia, 25.

The bodies were sent to Cox’s Bazar Sadar Hospital morgue for autopsies later.