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Ferry death toll rises to 116 DHAKA, Monday (Reuters) Rescuers have retrieved 116 bodies and nearly 90 people are still missing after a Bangladesh ferry capsized in a storm on a river near the capital, Dhaka, police and officials said on Monday. They said fire service and navy divers pulled out nearly 30 bodies after efforts to salvage the sunken ferry resumed early on Monday. More bodies could be found when the ferry was salvaged, one official told reporters at the scene. The M.V. Maharaj, which officials said was believed to have been carrying some 200 people, had been sailing to the southern town of Chandpur from Dhaka when it was caught in a tropical storm on the Buriganga river late on Saturday. |
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