<p>The trawlers had set sail from Kakdwip and adjacent areas in South 24-Parganas district yesterday and were reported missing in heavy rains following the depression lying 80 km east of Kolkata, District Magistrate N S Nigam told PTI over phone.<br /><br />A Coastguard ship and a Dornier aircraft were despatched to trace the trawlers but the search was being "hindered by low-level high speed air circulation and low clouds", Defence sources said.<br /><br />Nigam said he had earlier alerted the Coastguard and that the Navy has been approached to locate the missing fishermen.<br /><br />He said the trawlers could have drifted towards Bangladesh. The West Bengal administration has contacted the Bangladesh deputy high commissioner here to help in the rescue operations, he said.<br /><br />The naval officer-in-charge of West Bengal was also assisting in the search operation, the sources said.</p>
<p>The trawlers had set sail from Kakdwip and adjacent areas in South 24-Parganas district yesterday and were reported missing in heavy rains following the depression lying 80 km east of Kolkata, District Magistrate N S Nigam told PTI over phone.<br /><br />A Coastguard ship and a Dornier aircraft were despatched to trace the trawlers but the search was being "hindered by low-level high speed air circulation and low clouds", Defence sources said.<br /><br />Nigam said he had earlier alerted the Coastguard and that the Navy has been approached to locate the missing fishermen.<br /><br />He said the trawlers could have drifted towards Bangladesh. The West Bengal administration has contacted the Bangladesh deputy high commissioner here to help in the rescue operations, he said.<br /><br />The naval officer-in-charge of West Bengal was also assisting in the search operation, the sources said.</p>