DHAKA, Bangladesh — No less than 26 individuals died and a number of other others have been lacking on Monday after an overcrowded speedboat collided with a sand-laden bulk provider and sank on the Padma River in Bangladesh, the police stated.
“Rescuers discovered 26 useless our bodies, and a few nonetheless could possibly be lacking,” stated Miraj Hossain, a senior police official of the central Madaripur District, the place the accident occurred.
5 individuals have been rescued and despatched to a hospital, he stated.
A whole lot of individuals die annually in ferry accidents in Bangladesh, a low-lying nation that has intensive inland waterways and lax security requirements.
It was the second deadly maritime accident in a single month. On April 4, a collision between a cargo ship and a small ferry killed 27 individuals and left greater than a dozen others swimming for his or her lives in central Bangladesh, the most recent in an extended historical past of disasters on the nation’s closely trafficked waterway.