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Seven more bodies were recovered at the site of the
launch capsize in the river Buriganga yesterday. Focus
Bangla

Staff Reporter

With the retrieval of seven more bodies including that of a woman and two children yesterday from the River Buriganga, the death toll rose to 46 with about 11 people still unaccounted for.

The rescue and recovery operation of Thursday's ill-fated launch capsizes has since been called off.

Friends and relatives of the missing passengers of MV Shourav-1 were seen crowding the Buriganga banks near Bangladesh-China Friendship Bridge at Postagola in the city yesterday, hoping against hope to find the bodies of their loved ones.

They were still scouring the river to locate their missing relatives.

Five of the recovered bodies were identified as Hridoy, Jhumka, Habibur, Rezaul, and Rajib. Identities of a two-year boy and a man in his 30s could not be known.

Police send the identified bodies to The Sir Salimullah Medical College Hospital for autopsy.

The launch bound for Munshiganj, capsized on Thursday afternoon, with about 200 passengers on board as a sand-carrying vessel rammed into it from behind.