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40 dead as Bangladesh ferry search called off

By Washington Examiner
Published May 17, 2014 4:12am ET
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40 dead as Bangladesh ferry search called off
A Bangladeshi man mourns for his missing brother, as rescuers continue to search the site of a ferry that sank, on the banks of the River Meghna in Munshiganj district, in Bangladesh, Friday, May 16, 2014. Rescuers have recovered at least 26 bodies after a ferry capsized during a storm in a river in central Bangladesh, officials said Friday. Police estimated at least 100 people were still missing, but there was no clear picture about exactly how many people were on board because the ferry operators did not maintain a passenger list, said a local administrator, Saiful Hasan. (AP Photo/Suvra Kanti Das) | Suvra Kanti Das

MUNSHIGANJ, Bangladesh (AP) — Rescuers called off the search for missing passengers of a sunken ferry in central Bangladesh on Saturday after retrieving 40 bodies, causing anger among relatives of those still unaccounted for.

The chief of Bangladesh’s water transport authority, Shamsuddoha Khandaker, said that divers would leave the River Meghna site where the ferry M.V. Miraz-4 sank in a storm on Thursday. There was confusion over how many passengers were onboard, and authorities would not provide any complete list.

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