Two die in boat capsize
A woman and her granddaughter died and two others went missing as a boat capsized in Kangsha River at Holash Khali in Dharmapasha upazila yesterday. The dead are Jaher Banu, 70, and her granddaughter Ima Akhter, 6, of Umedpur village in the upazila. Witnesses said the overloaded boat with 30 to 40 passengers aboard sank in the river when it was going to Mohanganj from Dharmapasha upazila at around 8:00am. Other passengers of the boat managed to swim ashore and a rescue operation was going on to trace the missing people as of filing of this report at 4:00pm yesterday.
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