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Urgent: Dozens missing in Bangladesh ship sinking

Xinhua, January 29, 2015 Adjust font size:

Dozens of people went missing as a trawler carrying more than 100 foreign job-seekers capsized in the Bay of Bengal Thursday, local media reported.

The coast guards rescued 31 people, who were going to Malaysia illegally, according to the reports. Endi