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Bangladesh: Chinese worker of Padma Bridge Project goes missing 

| @indiablooms | Jun 25, 2021, at 02:47 pm

Beijing: A Chinese man, who was working in the Padma Bridge Project in Bangladesh, has been missing for the past two days, media reports said.

The missing person was identified as 38-year-old foreman Zhao Jiang Ping.

We reportedly went missing after falling  in the river near Shimulia ferry terminal in Louhajang upazila of Munshiganj on Tuesday.

No trace of Zhao was found till 8:30pm on Thursday, Dewan Abdul Quader, executive engineer of the project, told Dhaka Tribune.

He said Zhao was working the night shift on that day.

Coast Guard divers conducted a search operation in the river.

Munshiganj's Sreenagar Fire Service and Civil Defence Station Officer Dewan Azad told Dhaka Tribune: “We have carried out a search operation form dawn till 9pm on Thursday. The operation was carried out from Shimulia Ghat No 3 to the area near Chandpur.”

He said that they would end the search operation if the worker could not be found by Friday.

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