Seven people including five of a family were drowned when a boat ferrying some 30 people back from a wedding ceremony capsized in stormy weather, in Pabna district on Saturday.
The bodies of a 70-year old man, a woman and three children, all members of a family from Sonarpara village, were recovered from the flooded Khalishpur marsh on Sunday while the bodies of two other unidentified passengers remain untraced, a Bengali daily ‘Janakantha’ reported in Dhaka on Monday.
“The others on board swam to safety,” the report said. Bureau Report