Thick fog on last winter day disrupts air, water travel in Bangladesh

Thick fog has covered the capital city Dhaka and several other areas of Bangladesh on the last day of winter, disrupting air and water travel.

Three Dhaka-bound international flights were diverted to Chittagong while ferry services have been suspended on the Shimulia-Kewrakandi route.
 
Hit with poor visibility obscuring the runway, the aircraft were re-routed to land at Shah Amanat International Airport in Chittagong after Friday midnight.
 
The airport’s manager Wing Commander Reazul Kabir told bdnews24.com two of the aircraft belong to Malindo Air.
 
They had flown in from Kathmandu and Kuala Lumpur. The other aircraft of Regent Airways came from Kuala Lumpur.
 
The airport authorities later said one of the Malindo Air aircraft and that of Regent Airways were on the way to Dhaka from Chittagong.
 
The Regent Airways plane touched down at Shahjalal International Airport at 1:39am on Saturday, the airline’s Chief Operating Officer Ashish Chowdhury told bdnews24.com.
 
The ferry services on Shimulia-Kewrakandi route were suspended at around 11:15pm on Friday as the signals and buoy lights could not be seen through the fog, BIWTC official Shekhar Chandra Roy said.
 
Two ferries loaded with vehicles were stuck at Shimulia pier while five others anchored in the middle of the River Padma, he said.
 
Several hundred vehicles were stranded at Shimulia and Kewrakandi, he added.