By Mizan Rahman/Dhaka

Three detained foreign human traffickers were charged in the southeastern port city of Chittagong yesterday for firing on a trawler in the Bay of Bengal that left five Bangladeshis killed and many injured yesterday.
The Bangladesh Coast Guard filed the case.
The trio – two from Thailand and one from Myanmar - has also been accused of trafficking people to Malaysia illegally, said Lt Gazi Harun-Ur Rashid, commander of Taknaf Coast Guard.
The case was filed with the Teknaf Model Police Station.
In the morning, the coast guard personnel sent the bodies of the victims to Cox’s Bazaar Sadar Hospital morgue for autopsy.
Five Bangladeshis were killed and at least 151 injured when a gang of miscreants from Myanmar opened fire on a ferry carrying over 300 people to Malaysia.
The Coast Guard detained the human traffickers - Thai citizens Sang and Mong (full name not known) and Myanmar national Abdul Gofur - after towing the boat to St Martin’s Island from the Bay of Bengal on Wednesday.
Among the injured, 29 Bangladeshis are undergoing treatment at the hospital since last night, said Moktar Hossain, officer-in-charge at Teknaf Police Station in Cox’s Bazaar.
Another 285 Bangladeshis, who were on the trawler during the firing, were shifted to Teknaf from St Martin this morning.
Twelve more Bangladeshis remained missing since the incident occurred.
According to the Bangladesh Coast Guard, the 120-feet-long ferry with 300 people on board set off for Malaysia from Moheshkhali coast in Cox’s Bazar on Monday night.
Following the incident, Bangladesh has decided to launch a countrywide mass awareness campaign against human trafficking.
Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Engineer Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain said, “Local administration and union parishad offices across the country issued circulars to make people aware against human trafficking”.
Mentioning that there are laws with death penalty provision against human traffickers, the minister said the circulars will be issued to inform people about the harsh punishment for human trafficking