CHANDPUR (Bangladesh): Heavy rain and swift currents put a halt to a search yesterday for about 400 people missing and feared dead after an overloaded Bangladeshi ferry capsized, the latest in a series of such disasters.
“There is little hope of resuming the search today (yesterday) as it is still raining heavily, with an occasional blast of wind,” said an official supervising the rescue effort here, 170km south-east of Dhaka.
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