Two Brothers Jump Off Cargo Ship, One Found

Yesterday morning, two Bangladeshi brothers jumped off a freighter ship that was leaving the Port of Newark, "somewhere between the Kill van Kull and Verrazano-Narrows Bridge." One brother was found, while the other is still missing.

Authorities say that 27-year-old Mohammed Nayem Uddin was found by fishermen on Hoffman Island, "shivering and covered in garbage bags." The Staten Island Advance reports he was taken to the hospital for hypothermia-like conditions. Uddin did not cooperate with the police, who tried to communicate with him through a translator. His 21-year-old brother Mohammed Bakhtier Uddin is still missing. The Coast Guard, NYPD, and FDNY canvased the area between the Kill van Kull and Ambrose Channel.

The police aren't sure why the Uddins jumped off the ship, a 797-foot freighter named the Manhattan Bridge. Their passports were found on the ship; immigration officials have not commented.

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By Jen Chung in News on September 18, 2007 8:09 AM

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guest

Come on. The ship was named the Manhattan Bridge. Wasn't the Manhattan Bridge once a destination for jumpers? At least that's what they said in the Steve Martin movie, "The Lonely Guy."

guest

Geez, guys, they probably just hated their jobs. I want to jump out of a window myself, they just happened to have water beneath.

guest

Two Bengal Tigers lept off a ship - anyone else reminded of "Life of Pi"???

guest

how about this: all of you who hear the word 'muslim' and get yer pants filled with brown liquid LEAVE new york so them thar islame-o-factsits don't kill you.

i bet my rent goes down.

guest

How soon until the terrorist attack happens, and Osama releases their "martyrdom" video bragging about how many "infidels" he's going to kill?

They should send his illegal ass straight to guantanamo, and force some information out of him.

virgil

My father was attacked by a tiget, but he killed it with his dagget.

ThisCharmingMan

the whole thing is sad, and the whole thing sucks.

guest

tigers, rather.

guest

Yeah, Bengals are the tigets. Gothamist. Sigh.

guest

Two guys named Mohammed jump ship, and leave their passports behind, then won't cooperate with the police..?

Sounds perfectly reasonable to me

guest

BANGLADESHI not BENGLADESHI

please, fix? thanks!!

guest

Hey #2, better to turn a blind eye now and then criticize when something happens!

guest

Ha Bedwetting..That's really fuckin funny.

I was just making a point, I wasn’t trying to be alarmist

guest

is there a time stamp on when the item was posted to compare with the time stamp on the first comment? cuz i'd like to see JUST HOW FAST the bedwetting began...

guest

Hasn't there been some concern about people trying to sneak weapons or themselves into the states for the purpose of attacks using cargo ships just like this..?