Time out for rescue
NZPA-AP Dhaka Players and spectators at a soccer match in Dhaka abandoned their game to save about 100 passengers from a ferry that sank in north-eastern Bangladesh, witnesses and police said yesterday. The ferry, carrying more than double its permitted capacity, sank near the banks of the Karala River at Mahasingh, about 175 km north-east of Dhaka, yesterday. Most of the 22 players at the soccer match and hundreds of spectators who heard the screams of the passengers jumped into the river, witnesses said.
Police said there were no deaths or serious injuries.
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Press, 23 February 1989, Page 8
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