At least 23 people have died and some 25 others are missing on Sunday (September 25th) after a boat sank in a river in northern Bangladesh, police said.
“
We recovered 23 bodies.
Firefighters and divers are looking for other bodies
,” local police official Shafiqul Islam told AFP.
Another police officer said up to 25 people are still missing.
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The boat was carrying up to 50 Hindu pilgrims, police said.
They were on their way to a temple when the boat suddenly tipped over and sank in the middle of the Karatoa River near the town of Boda in northern Bangladesh.
Shipwreck tragedies, caused by lack of maintenance and overcrowding on board, are common in Bangladesh, a poor country crossed by rivers.
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