DHAKA: At least 79 people were killed and nearly 120 were missing after a Bangladesh ferry capsized in a storm on a river near the capital Dhaka, police and officials said yesterday.
The ferry 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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