Bodies of 5 Bangladeshi footballers drowned in river recovered
Dhaka, July 16 : The bodies of five teenage Bangladeshi footballers who drowned in a river on Saturday evening were recovered early on Sunday.
Bakhtiar Uddin Chowdhury, officer-in-charge of Chakaria Police Station, said the bodies were retrieved by a team of Divers of Fire Service and Civil Defence.
The victims were students of local Grammar School in Cox's Bazar district, some 292 km southeast of capital Dhaka, Xinhua reported.
According to the official, six boys went swimming in the Matamuhuri river at around 4:00 p.m. local time on Saturday after they played a friendly match.
But strong current in the river washed them away, said the official. Only one of them managed to swim ashore.
He said the death of the teenagers have stunned and cast a great darkness over the whole district. People rushed to victims' homes in villages of the sub-district to mourn the deaths.
Their funeral held on Sunday saw tens of thousands turn up in attendance wearing black badges.
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UP: Misled by GPS navigation, car falls into river from partially constructed bridge, 3 dead
Bareilly (UP), Nov 24: Three people died when their car fell into the Ramganga river from a partially constructed bridge here on Sunday, police said, adding that they suspect the driver was misled by its navigation system into taking the unsafe route.
The accident occurred around 10 am on the Khalpur-Dataganj road when the victims were travelling from Bareilly to Dataganj in the Badaun district, they said.
"Earlier this year, floods had caused the front portion of the bridge to collapse into the river, but this change had not been updated in the system," Circle Officer Ashutosh Shivam said.
The driver was using a navigation system and did not realise that the bridge was unsafe, driving the car off the damaged section, the police said.
There were no safety barriers or warning signs on the approach to the damaged bridge, leading to the fatal accident, Shivam said.
Upon receiving information, police teams from Faridpur, Bareilly and Dataganj police station rushed to the spot. They recovered the vehicle and the bodies from the river, Shivam added.
The circle officer said that bodies had been sent for post-mortem. Further investigation into the matter is underway.
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