Bangladesh: In a shocking incident, a passenger boat carrying more than 100 people sank after a collision Friday in a large pond in Bangladesh.  

According to reports,  21 people were dead and about 50 missing. Firefighters and locals were looking for the missing people well past midnight. The sinking occurred in the Bijoynagar area in Brahmanbaria district in the evening, local police official Imranul Islam said over telephone. Rescuers recovered at least 21 bodies by late Friday, while survivors said about 100 people were on board, he said. Local news reports, quoting the area’s top government administrator, Hayat-Ud-Dola, said about 50 people were missing. An eye witness said two cargo vessels hit the boat, which sank quickly, “I was grazing cattle on the bank of the pond. I heard a loud noise and saw the cargo vessels hitting the passenger trawler. I saw the trawler sinking quickly,” witness Nurul Amin told the media.

The area is 82 kilometers east of the capital, Dhaka. Bangladesh is a delta nation where water transport is heavily used to move people and goods, but deadly accidents are common because of unskilled operation and poor enforcement of safety rules. The deputy commissioner of the district reportedly visited the area later and announced that Tk 20,000 would be given to each family of the deceased.

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