Boat overloaded with Hindu pilgrims capsized on Sunday, with the dying toll rising to 66 and plenty of passengers nonetheless lacking.
Authorities in Bangladesh have blamed overcrowding for the sinking of a ferry that has killed at the very least 66 folks, with many passengers nonetheless lacking two days after the catastrophe.
No less than 15 extra persons are nonetheless unaccounted for, stated Dipankar Roy, a senior authorities official within the northern Panchagarh district, the place the boat capsized on Sunday.
A five-member committee is investigating the accident, with preliminary stories suggesting the boat was carrying almost thrice its capability, stated Jahurul Islam, chief administrator of Panchagarh.
“Divers are looking for extra our bodies as some are nonetheless lacking,” he stated.
The small boat full of Hindu devotees on their option to a preferred temple flipped over within the Karatoya River as onlookers watched in horror from the shore close to Boda city in Panchagarh.
Police stated that whereas among the passengers managed to swim ashore or had been rescued, about 10 had been nonetheless lacking. Passengers stated greater than 80 folks had been on board.
Boda police chief Sujay Kumar Roy stated rescue employees, together with firefighters, navy divers and villagers, had been looking for miles downstream on the river.
Onlookers and family of the lacking gathered alongside the riverbank as rescuers looked for our bodies, witnesses stated.
“I simply wish to see the face of my mom,” Deepak Chandra Roy stated, talking via tears as he looked for his mom.
“Three ladies of my household had been lacking for the reason that boat capsized,” stated one distraught relative, Bikash Chandra. “We discovered one within the morning round 10am, who was rescued earlier. However I couldn’t discover the opposite two but.”
The dying toll was the worst for a maritime catastrophe within the nation since 2015, when at the very least 78 folks died after an overcrowded ferry collided with a cargo vessel in a river west of the capital, Dhaka.
Dozens of individuals die annually in ferry accidents in Bangladesh, a low-lying nation that has in depth inland waterways and lax security requirements.
No less than 26 folks died in Might after an overcrowded speedboat collided with a sand-laden bulk provider and sank on the Padma River.
Final December, some 40 folks perished when a packed three-storey ferry caught hearth in southern Bangladesh.
A ferry sank in Dhaka in June 2020 after a collision with one other vessel, killing at the very least 32 folks. In the meantime, in 2015, at the very least 78 folks perished when an overcrowded ship collided with a cargo vessel in a river west of the capital.
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