No less than 24 other folks, most commonly youngsters and ladies, have been killed on Sunday after a ship wearing Hindu devotees to a centuries-old temple capsised in a river in northwestern Bangladesh, officers stated.
The demise toll is anticipated to upward push additional as no less than 25 others are lacking after the incident in Bangladesh’s Panchagarh district.
The devotees have been heading in opposition to the Bodeshwari Temple at the instance of Mahalaya, the auspicious get started of the Durga Puja pageant, when the boat capsised within the Korotoa River.
“Round 24 other folks, together with 8 youngsters and 12 ladies have died within the incident thus far. A few of them have been declared useless when they have been dropped at a neighborhood medical institution,” Solaiman Ali, administrative leader of Panchagargh’s Boda sub-district, instructed newshounds.
He stated searches through firefighters and native divers have been underway for the lacking ones, including the choice of passengers was once assumed to be between 70 and 80.
Some survivors, who controlled to swim ashore, are concerned within the rescue operations.
Ali stated the engine-run boat was once wearing Hindu devotees to the centuries-old Bodeshwari Temple.
Panchagargh’s administrative leader or deputy commissioner Zahurul Haque stated the boat was once it sounds as if wearing passengers past its capability.
1000’s of Hindus within the Muslim-majority Bangladesh consult with the Bodeshwari Temple once a year all through the Durga Puja, which started in Bangladesh on Sunday.
President Abdul Hamid and Top Minister Sheikh Hasina have expressed condolences to the sufferers’ households in separate statements.
Native officers have been requested to take steps for survivors’ remedy and reimbursement for the useless.
The Durga Puja is the most important Hindu pageant in Bangladesh and in japanese India.
Deltaic Bangladesh is crisscrossed through a number of hundred rivers whilst loads of other folks die every yr in boat and ferry injuries in Bangladesh, in large part because of overcrowding.
Twenty-six other folks died in Might after an overcrowded pace boat collided with a sand-laden bulk provider and sank at the Padma River.