At least 10 people drowned while two remained missing in separate boat capsize incidents in Habiganj and Sunamganj districts on Tuesday.
In Habiganj, eight people drowned as a motorboat with around 25 passengers overturned in the swirling waters of Bala haor (water-body) in Baniachang upazila on Tuesday night.
The bodies recovered till 4:00pm yesterday had been identified as Biswahari Das, 48, his granddaughters–Toma Rani of nine months and Lima Rani, 6, Anandamayee Das, 83, UmaTara, 55, Amiya Chowdhury, 87, Usha Rani, 55, her granddaughter Monika Das, 7.
All the deceased hailed from Noabag village of the upazila.
Witnesses said the boat, carrying Biswahari Das along with his family members and other villagers were returning home from Ikram Akhara temple after offering special prayers.
The boat faced inclement weather on its way back home at about 9:00pm and capsized in the Bala haor.
Hearing the screaming of the passengers, the locals rushed to the spot and recovered the bodies of three children on Tuesday night while five others yesterday.
The rest travelling by the motorboat managed to swim ashore after the mishap.
In another incident in Sunamganj, two students were drowned when their boat hit a broken electric pole of the Rural Electrification Board in Noagaon canal and got electrocuted before being capsized in Doara Bazar upazila Tuesday afternoon.
The deceased, whose bodies were recovered on Tuesday, were identified as Josna Begum, a student of class ten of Mitali Katakhola High School and Md Nurul Islam of class five of Chandipur Government Primary School.
Both of them hailed from Chandipur village of the upazila.
Fifteen other passengers of the boat also sustained injuries while the two other students were feared drowned in the incident.
The body of two other students Abdul Wahid and Raju Ahmed remained untraced till filing this report yesterday.
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