At least 26 killed, dozens missing as overloaded ferry sinks
Latest update : 2009-11-28
At least 28 people were killed and dozens are missing after a ferry packed with over 1,000 passengers going home to celebrate the Eid-ul Adha holiday partly sank in southern Bangladesh.
AFP - Twenty-eight people were killed and dozens more were feared dead after a Bangladesh ferry jammed with over 1,000 people going home to celebrate the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday capsized, an official said Saturday.
"We have recovered 28 bodies. We believe dozens more people were trapped under the water and we fear that they are dead," district administrator Mejbahul Islam told AFP by telephone from Nazirpura, 250 kilometres (155 miles) south of Dhaka.
The accident occurred Friday around midnight as the MV Coco-4, one of the country's largest inland vessels, was approaching the dock on Bhola island.
The ferry had more than 1,000 passengers aboard when it started taking on water, police said.
Date created : 2009-11-28