Mother, 2 kids missing in boat capsize
A mother and her two children are feared drowned in the Buriganga at Kholamora in Keraniganj after a sand-laden trawler rammed the boat they were travelling on Tuesday night causing it to capsize.
The people feared dead are Firoza Begum Lucky, 30, her two-and-a-half-year-old son Firoz and five-and-a-half-year-old daughter Farzana.
Police said a team of divers from the Fire Brigade and Civil Defence searched for them twice yesterday and on Tuesday night without any success.
Quoting witnesses, police said the boat, ferrying around 12 people across the river, bent and sunk in mid-river after the trawler hit it around 8:00pm.
When the boat went down the rest of the passengers including the boatman managed to swim ashore.
Relatives of the woman and her two kids are still looking for them.
Police said they could not trace the trawler.
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