At least 21 people died by drowning and about 50 others are missing in Bangladesh, where the collision with two other cargo boats sank a boat loaded with a hundred passengers in a small lake, in the delta area where the large ones flow. rivers Ganges and Brahmaputra, about eighty kilometers from Dhaka. Several media write it.
"I was grazing cattle when he heard a crash and saw one of the two cargo boats hit the boat, which quickly sank," eyewitness Nurul told the local Daily Star newspaper.
The huge area of the Ganges Delta is crossed by all kinds of boats as water is almost always the only way to move. Accidents are frequent. Last May 26 people died when the motorboat they were traveling on hit a barge full of sand on the Padma River (the end of the Ganges). In another shipwreck in this region, 78 lost their lives in February 2015.