3 drown in Kaliganga as boat sinks
Three workers of a sand-laden motorboat drowned after it sank in the Kaliganga river at Nawabganj in Dhaka yesterday morning.
The deceased were identified as Shahid, 35, Moyeen, 30 and Omar, 35, all hailed from Pabna district.
Jahangir Hossain, officer-in-charge of Nawabganj Police Station said the Fatulla-bound boat sank in the area around 7:00am while the victims along with their seven other fellow workers were sleeping on the boat after anchoring there.
Police with the help of fire brigade divers recovered the bodies from the river in the afternoon after the survivors of the boat informed police that their three fellow workers went missing, OC added.
However, police and the workers could not ascertain the cause behind the sinking.
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