At least 110 people were Monday confirmed to have been drowned while nearly 260 Bangladeshi fishermen were feared drowned in the aftermath of post-monsoon rainstorms in the Bay of Bengal , according to DPA. Divers and police sources in the rain-swept fishing port of Barguna in southern Bangladesh confirmed the number of people drowned while coastguard rescuers provided details on the missing fishermen. Tropical gale winds and rough waves also wrecked about 40 trawlers that had been en route for deep sea in the southern Bangladeshi district of Bagerhat on Friday. Poor weather continued Monday. "(The) rescue and search operation for the untraced fishermen is hampered by driving rain and rising waves but we have not abandoned the mission," the coastguard's western zone commander Abidur Rahman said. Earlier reports on the impact of the storms said about 1,000 fishermen and 100 trawlers that had been caught in unexpected storms in the bay which flooded some of the Bangladeshi coast on Friday had not been traced. But the figures were revised after some of those reported missing returned home at the weekend after swimming to shore.
