37 bodies retrieved from river
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November 29, 2009, Sunday
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RESCUERS have retrieved 37 bodies, including at least 12 children, and are searching for scores of people missing after an overcrowded ferry sank in a river along the Bangladesh coast, police said yesterday.
They said the ferry M.V. Coco-4 was sailing to the coastal town of Bhola, some 300 kilometers from Dhaka, on Friday night with around 1,500 people on board - about three times the number it was registered to carry.
Elsewhere, at least 73 people were killed and others are missing after a logging boat sank in a lake in western Democratic Republic of Congo, a Red Cross official said yesterday.
The boat sank in bad weather and had been transporting logs with no authorization to take on passengers, Radio Okapi said.
They said the ferry M.V. Coco-4 was sailing to the coastal town of Bhola, some 300 kilometers from Dhaka, on Friday night with around 1,500 people on board - about three times the number it was registered to carry.
Elsewhere, at least 73 people were killed and others are missing after a logging boat sank in a lake in western Democratic Republic of Congo, a Red Cross official said yesterday.
The boat sank in bad weather and had been transporting logs with no authorization to take on passengers, Radio Okapi said.
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