Death Surge : Bangladesh's Capsizing River Ferries

A sunken passenger vessel sits grounded on Kamarjani island, near Gaibandha, Bangladesh on 20 January 2015. Local people say that there are...

An overloaded passenger vessel at Sadarghat Launch Terminal, Dhaka, Bangladesh on 27 July 2014. Overloading is one of the reasons for the si...

Rescuers have rescued a dead body from Meghna river near Munshigonj, Dhaka, Bangladesh on 16 May 2014. This deadbody is rectified as one of...

Rescue workers recover a dead body from the wreckage of the MV Miraj-4 passenger vessel at Munshigonj near Dhaka, Bangladesh, May 15 2014.

A mother is crying at the bank of river meghna at Munshigonj, Dhaka, 16 May 2014 as her both childrens are missing after the passenger vesse...

A rescue worker cries after spending the day recovering dead bodies from the sunken MV Miraj-4 passenger vessel at Munshigonj near Dhaka, Ba...

A man cries on the bank of Meghna River, 15 May 2014. The man was able to save himself, but not his mother, with whom he was traveling, when...

A Bangladesh Navy diver signals that he has found another dead body from the sunken MV Miraj - 4 passenger vessel at Munshigonj, Dhaka, 16 M...

A navy officer is giving signal to rescue the sunken MV MIraj -4 at Munshigonj, Dhaka, 16 May 2014. Before that 50 people were killed on tha...

A relative of a missing passenger from the MV Miraj-4 is waits for his relative

A dead body floats in the Meghna River 40 hours after the sinking of the MV Miraj-4 passenger vessel at Munshigonj near Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1...

Navy divers are carrying a dead body which was floating on meghna river at Munshigonj, Dhaka, 16 May 2014 after the passenger vessel MV Mira...

A crane pulls the wreckage of the MV Miraj-4 out of the Meghna River near Munshigonj, Dhaka, May 17, 2014. On that sunken passenger vessel 5...

A survivor of the Pinak-6 sinking cries on the shore of the Padma river, 4 August 2014. He was able to save himself, but not his mother, who...