DHAKA, Oct 10 (NNN-BSS) – At least five bodies were recovered, after a boat capsized in the Turag river in Savar, on the outskirts of the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, yesterday.
Khaleda Yasmin, a duty officer of the Fire Service and Civil Defence Headquarters, said that, the bodies of three boys, a woman and a girl, have so far been retrieved.
According to the official, the boat, carrying about 18 people, capsized, following a collision with a sand-carrying vessel on the river, in the early hours of yesterday.
Yasmin said, most of the passengers were able to swim ashore after the incident.
Some passengers of the vessel are still missing, Yasmin added.
In Bangladesh, ferries are a major means of transport, while most of them are often overcrowded.– NNN-BSS
