Hundreds of anxious Bangladeshis thronged to a remote river bank Sunday to watch rescuers resume a search for scores of people missing after a ferry carrying some 150 passengers sank late Friday. Up to 100 passengers had been rescued by late Saturday, Qamrun Nahar, spokeswoman for the river transport corporation -- which oversees Bangladesh's notoriously dangerous ferry operations, told AFP in Dhaka.
Only four bodies have been recovered from the water so far, rescuers said. A fifth person who was rescued alive Saturday, died later, they said.

The spokesperson refused to say how many people were still missing, preferring to wait for rescuers to Saturday lift the vessel from the bottom of the Meghna river, off Satnal and some 50 kilometres southeast of Dhaka, where it sank in a whirlwind just before midnight on Friday.
Authorities fear scores of people may be trapped inside the vessel, which rescuers said was lying overturned on the river bed, 15 metres under water. Bureau Report