Bangladesh prepares to find scores more bodies in capsized ferry


  • World
  • Saturday, 17 May 2014

DHAKA (Reuters) - Rescue workers in Bangladesh expected to find scores of bodies on Saturday trapped between the decks of river ferry that capsized two days earlier with around 200 people on board.

About 40 people swam to shore and 35 were rescued after the double-decker ferry went down in the Meghna river near the capital Dhaka during a storm on Thursday, police and rescue officials said.

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