Death toll from boat capsize in Bangladesh rises to 41

The boat overturned while returning from a Hindu temple on the Karatoa River in Panchagarh district in northern Bangladesh, local police chief SM��Sirajul Huda said.

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26 September, 2022

The boat was carrying around 100 Hindu pilgrims in northern Bangladesh [Getty]

Rescuers recovered 17 more bodies on Monday from a boat that capsized while carrying about 100 pilgrims in northern , raising the confirmed death toll to 41, police and news reports said.

Scores of people remained missing from the accident on Sunday, the largest -language newspaper Prothom Alo reported.

At least 24 people were killed and dozens were missing after a boat packed with Hindu devotees sank on Sunday in Bangladesh, in the worst waterways disaster to hit the country in more than a year 👇
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The boat overturned while returning from a Hindu temple on the Karatoa River in Panchagarh district in northern Bangladesh, local police chief SM Sirajul Huda said. Twenty-four bodies were recovered on Sunday.

Huda said many people were able to swim ashore.

About 8% of the more than 160 million people in Muslim-majority Bangladesh are Hindu.