In this image created from a video, people conduct a search operation in the Karatoa River where an overcrowded boat capsized in Bangladesh on Sunday.
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In this image created from a video, people conduct a search operation in the Karatoa River where an overcrowded boat capsized in Bangladesh on Sunday.
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DHAKA, Bangladesh – Rescuers recovered 17 more bodies on Monday from a boat that capsized carrying about 100 Hindu pilgrims in northern Bangladesh, bringing the confirmed death toll to 41. , police and news reports said.
The Prothom Alo newspaper of the largest Bengali newspaper Prothom Alo reported that many people are still missing after Sunday’s accident.
Local police chief SM Sirajul Huda said the boat capsized while returning from a Hindu temple on the Karatoa River in Panchagarh district in northern Bangladesh. 24 bodies were recovered on Sunday.
Huda said many people were able to swim to shore.
About 8% of the more than 160 million people in Muslim-majority Bangladesh are Hindus.
