Bodies of father, 2 kids recovered

The bodies of three members of a family were recovered from the river Karnaphuli in Chittagong yesterday morning, two days after they went missing following a boat capsize.
The victims are Harun-ur-Rashid, 40, and his son Maruf, 12, and daughter Ishrat, 9.
Mohiuddin Mahmud, officer-in-charge of Karnaphuli Police Station, said locals had found Harun's body floating in the river near Diamond Cement Factory area around 5:00am.
Later, Maruf's body had been recovered from near Ghat No. 11 of the river while Ishrat's body from east side of Karnaphuli bridge around 8:00am, he said.
The bodies had been sent to Chittagong Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsies, the police officer added.
After spending the Eid vacation at their village home in Chandanaish upazila of the district, Harun along with his wife and three children was returning to his Sadarghat house in the port city on Wednesday.
They first took a bus ride from Chandanaish, and then hired a boat at Bridgeghat to reach their residence in the city.
When the boat was halfway across the river, a goods-laden engine boat coming from the opposite direction hit it around 7:45pm. The boat sank in the river.
The boatman managed to get to the shore carrying Miraj, one of the children of Harun. The wife of Harun herself could swim ashore.
Harun held the two children and struggled to swim across the river, but soon the three drowned.