Shawdesh desk:

A decomposed body has been recovered from a container shipped to Malaysia’s Penang Port from Chattogram port, officials said on Tuesday.

According to the Chattogram Port Authority, the container came from BM container depot under Sitakunda upazila in Chattogram and was shipped from Bangladesh on ‘Sawasdee Atlantic’ on October 6.

The ship reached Penang Port three days later, the CPA officials said.

On October 10, the Penang Port Authority recovered the decomposed body while unloading the container and informed the matter to Malaysian police.

‘The body recovered from the container was not identified as that of a Bangladeshi national. Malaysian police are investigating the matter,’ said Mainul Haque Chowdhury, managing director of Glob Link, the shipping agent of Sawasdee Atlantic.

He said that the ship was carrying goods from Chattogram port to Malaysia but that container was sent empty.

‘It could be a case of human trafficking as similar incident has occurred before,’ he said.

Chattogram port secretary Omar Faruque said that the matter was under investigation.