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Bangladesh ferry capsizes with 200 people on board
August 04, 2014
Just in: Bangladesh ferry sinks with 200 people on board. Reuters reports that a ferry with about 200 passengers aboard
capsized on Monday in the river Padma, near Munshiganj district, about
30 km southwest of Dhaka.
Mohammad Saiful Hasan Badal, the Deputy Commissioner of the
district, said 44 passengers had been rescued from the vessel,
identified as the Pinak-6. No deaths had yet been reported.
Teams from the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority and the army were engaged in the rescue operation.
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