Three members of a family died and a minor went missing as a boat capsized in the Buriganga river on Friday night
Three members of a family died and a minor went missing as a boat capsized in the Buriganga river on Friday night
Dhaka: Three members of a family died and a minor went missing as a boat capsized in the Buriganga river on Friday night.
The deceased were identified as Motiur Rahman Moti, 55, his wife Rozina Begum, 42, and Momtaz Begum, 50.
Abdur Razzak, officer-in-charge of Sadarghat police station, said the boat, carrying four members of a family, sank in the river after being hit by a launch, 'MV-Manik', around 10:30pm, leaving them missing.
The bodies of Rozina and Momtaz were retrieved from the river around midnight while that of Moti around 9:00am on Saturday, the OC said.
Moti's son Abid, 5, went missing till filing the report about 11:11am.
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