No Bangladeshi so far has been reported to be injured or killed in the boat that sank off the coast of southern Italy on Thursday.
“Our embassy in Rome is in close contact with the Italian authorities to find out if any Bangladeshi was on the boat,” Director General of external publicity wing of the foreign ministry Shameem Ahsan told the Dhaka Tribune.
“By 8:30pm today, no news of Bangladeshi casualty was reported,” he confirmed.
Currently there are over 100,000 Bangladeshis in Italy.
Meanwhile, BBC reported that due to rough weather, rescue operation had been postponed. The rescuers found 111 bodies and 155 people were rescued alive from the sea from the island of Lampedusa after the accident.
The ship, which sailed from the Libyan port of Misrata, was carrying around 500 migrants - mostly from Eritrea and Somalia.
An estimated 25,000 have lost their lives in the past 20 years in shipwrecks while migrating by ship to Europe by Mediterranean routes
