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November 30, 2009, Monday
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A RESCUE ship righted a capsized ferry yesterday, easing the work of those searching submerged cabins for dozens of passengers more than a day after the boat sank in southern Bangladesh. So far, 58 people have been confirmed dead, authorities said.
The MV Coco was packed with hundreds of travelers leaving Dhaka to head home for the Islamic festival of Eid al-Adha when it went down late on Friday. It started to take on water as it arrived at Nazirhat town in the district of Bhola, 104 kilometers south of the capital.
Gas torches were used to cut open submerged cabins, and local residents joined divers to search for survivors inside the ferry in the Tetulia River.
Operations picked up yesterday - more than 36 hours after the accident - when a rescue ship used iron ropes to right the submerged ferry, exposing more than a dozen bodies inside its water-filled hull, local police official Mohammad Mahmud said.
The recovery took the total number of dead to 58, mostly women and children, before the search was suspended for the night, Mahmud said.
Authorities said there were no passenger lists, so it was unclear how many people were aboard the vessel, but Dhaka's private ETV television station said it could have been carrying more than 1,500 people.
Officials would not say how many remained unaccounted for. Dhaka's mass circulation Prothom Alo daily said it could be 50.
Hundreds of anxious relatives massed on the river to search for their loved ones. "The ferry sank just before midnight Friday, but rescuers did not arrive until the morning," said survivor Sohel Hossain.
The MV Coco was packed with hundreds of travelers leaving Dhaka to head home for the Islamic festival of Eid al-Adha when it went down late on Friday. It started to take on water as it arrived at Nazirhat town in the district of Bhola, 104 kilometers south of the capital.
Gas torches were used to cut open submerged cabins, and local residents joined divers to search for survivors inside the ferry in the Tetulia River.
Operations picked up yesterday - more than 36 hours after the accident - when a rescue ship used iron ropes to right the submerged ferry, exposing more than a dozen bodies inside its water-filled hull, local police official Mohammad Mahmud said.
The recovery took the total number of dead to 58, mostly women and children, before the search was suspended for the night, Mahmud said.
Authorities said there were no passenger lists, so it was unclear how many people were aboard the vessel, but Dhaka's private ETV television station said it could have been carrying more than 1,500 people.
Officials would not say how many remained unaccounted for. Dhaka's mass circulation Prothom Alo daily said it could be 50.
Hundreds of anxious relatives massed on the river to search for their loved ones. "The ferry sank just before midnight Friday, but rescuers did not arrive until the morning," said survivor Sohel Hossain.
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