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Launch capsizes in Bangladesh

| | Feb 22, 2015, at 07:08 pm
Manikganj , Feb 22 (IBNS): A launch capsized in Padma river at Manikganj district in Bangladesh on Sunday, media reports said.
The launch, which  was carrying 200 passengers, capsized  after  being hit by a cargo trawler .
 
ML Mostafa sank in the mid river around 11:45 am, Harun or  Rashid, assistant superintendent of police (Manikganj-Shibaloy circle) was quoted as saying by The Daily Star.
 
According to reports, the police have  seized the trawler which hit ML Mostafa.
 
No casualty has been reported so far.

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