Ferry sinks in Bangladesh after collision; at least 5 dead, dozens missing

At least five people confirmed dead including two women and two children; dozens missing and presumed dead after ferry sank in collision with cargo vessel.

On a Sunday morning in Bangladesh, a crowded passenger ferry crossing the Shitalakhsya River near the industrial city of Narayanganj was struck by a cargo vessel and sank, claiming at least five lives — among them women and children — while dozens more vanished into the murky water. The tragedy is not an aberration but a recurring chapter in a nation where geography binds millions to river travel and where systemic neglect has made waterway deaths an annual certainty. Bangladesh loses hundreds of souls each year to ferry accidents, a toll that speaks less to misfortune than to the slow violenc

Ferry sinks in Bangladesh after collision; at least 5 dead, dozens missing

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