600 are missing in river ferry disaster.AROUND 600 people were missing feared dead today after a ferry packed with at least 750 passengers capsized in a rain swollen river in southern Bangladesh Bangladesh (bäng-lädĕsh`, băng–) [Bengali,=Bengal nation], officially People's Republic of Bangladesh, republic (2005 est. pop. 144,320,000), 55,126 sq mi (142,776 sq km), S Asia. , rescue officials said. Survivors Survivors was a British television series devised by Terry Nation and produced by Terence Dudley at the BBC from 1975 to 1977. It concerned the plight of a group of people who had survived an accidentally released plague that had killed nearly the entire population of the said the ferry, the MV Nasrin-2,overturned when it hit turbulent waters as it approached a ferry terminal in the town of Chandpur. It sank late yesterday as many passengers were either asleep or preparing to go to bed, they said. About 150 people either swam swam v. Past tense of swim. swam Verb the past tense of swim swam swim to shore or were rescued by local fishermen, said Manzoor-eElahi, the area's government administrator. The steel and wood ship was ``extremely overcrowded'' because about 400 passengers boarded at the last moment after another ferry cancelled its scheduled trip to the south. |
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