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Many feared drowned

Dhaka: At least 75 people were feared dead as a ferry capsized in river Boleshwar after a storm near Kachubaria ghat in Mathbaria area on Thursday night, police said on Thursday. ``The launch was carrying over a 100 passengers and to my knowledge only 20-25 of them swam ashore,'' said a police official. It was heading from Charduani in the coastal district of Pirojepur to the industrial district of Khulna when it went down. No other details about the vessel or accident were immediately available. Bangladesh has one of the world's worst accident records — a combination of lax regulations and poor safety checks. Nearly 500 people were killed on May 3 when the M.V. Salahuddin-2 sank in the Meghna river.

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