DHAKA: A river ferry carrying up to 300 people capsized during a storm in Bangladesh early yesterday with most of the passengers feared trapped inside, police said.
The double-decker mv Lighting Sun was heading here on the Meghna river from the southern Madaripur area when it was swamped by a sudden storm near Chandpur, 170km east of the capital.
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