DHAKA: Nearly 100 people have died and dozens are still missing after two ferries sank in storms that swept parts of Bangladesh, but rescuers were hobbled by bitter weather and inadequate equipment.
Hundreds of grieving relatives and villagers crowded riverbanks yesterday to scan bodies lined up on the sand and await rescue vessels, witnesses said.
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