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Urgent: 3 dead, scores missing as ferry sinks on Bangladesh river

Xinhua, March 28, 2017 Adjust font size:

At least three people died and scores of others were missing after a jam-packed ferry sank on a river in Bangladesh's Bagerhat district on Tuesday.

A police official said the bodies of three women had been recovered as the search for survivors were underway. Endit