Staff Correspondent
Death toll in Sunday's MV Lighting Sun capsize in the Meghna river rose to 61 after rescuers retrieved 45 more bodies yesterday and unofficial sources claimed around 100 are still unaccounted for.
The dead included 33 men, 19 women and nine children.
MV Lighting Sun and MV Diganta, another double-decker launch but smaller in size, sank in the Meghna close to Chandpur about the same time during a pre-monsoon storm in the early hours of Sunday
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