26 drown as boat capsizes in B’desh
An overcrowded speedboat ferrying over 30 passengers and violating Covid-19 restrictions capsized after hitting a stationary sand-laden cargo vessel on the Padma River on Monday, leaving at least 26 people dead, a senior Bangladesh police officer said. “We have retrieved 26 bodies, rescued alive five others... but searches are underway for more as several speedboat passengers are feared missing,” said Ashiqur Rahman, a police inspector. He said the police learnt the driver of the speedboat was an inexperienced underage boy.