The death toll from a speedboat and a sand-laden bulkhead cargo clash rose to 26 including three children and a woman as the mishap held on the BanglaBazar-Shimulia route in the Padma river near Kathalbari Ghat under Shibchar upazila of Madaripur district this morning.<\/p>\n
Being informed, Shibchar Fire Service and Civil Defense and River Police rushed to the spot and carried out the rescue operation.<\/p>\n
\u201cA speedboat carrying passengers on board heading towards Banglabazar from Shimulia Ghat and after reaching near to Kathalbari Old Ferry Ghat it was overturned when hit by a bulkhead cargo around 7:30am,\u201dsaid Syamal Biswas, in-charge of Shibchar Fire Service and Civil Defence.<\/p>\n
A total of 26 bodies have so far been recovered from the river and five others found alive during the rescue operation, he said, adding:\u201dThe identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n
The bodies were kept at the Old Ferry Ghat and the injured were sent to local hospital, Syamal Biswas said.<\/p>\n
Local Upazila Nirbahi Officer(UNO) , Armed forces local unit members, Officer-in-Charge (OC) of local police station and river police officials are now on the spot.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the rescue operation is underway and more skilled divers of Barishal Fire Services are on the way to join the rescue drive.<\/p>\n
But, the actual number of passengers who were on board of the speedboat could not be known immediately, the in-charge added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The death toll from a speedboat and a sand-laden bulkhead cargo clash rose to 26 including three children and a woman as the mishap held on the BanglaBazar-Shimulia route in the Padma river near Kathalbari Ghat under Shibchar upazila of Madaripur district this morning. Being informed, Shibchar Fire Service and Civil Defense and River Police […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9784,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9783\/revisions\/9784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}