{"id":963,"date":"2015-02-22T15:14:57","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T15:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.humanrightsagency.com\/?p=963"},"modified":"2015-02-22T15:14:57","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T15:14:57","slug":"the-sinking-of-a-ferry-in-bangladesh-at-least-38-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/the-sinking-of-a-ferry-in-bangladesh-at-least-38-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"The sinking of a ferry in Bangladesh, at least 38 dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A river ferry carrying about 100 passengers capsized in central Bangladesh on Sunday after being hit by a cargo vessel, killing at least 38 people, officials said. A rescue operation was underway, but it was not clear how many people were missing.<\/p>\n<p>The ferry was struck by the cargo vessel at the Daulatdia-Paturia crossing on the Padma River on Sunday afternoon, said fire department official Shahzadi Begum. Rescue teams were deployed and passing boats were helping in the operation, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The site is 40 kilometers (25 miles) northwest of Dhaka, Bangladesh&#8217;s capital. Ferry accidents are common in Bangladesh, an impoverished South Asian nation that is crisscrossed by more than 130 rivers(\u2026)<\/p>\n<p>Last August, a ferry with a capacity of 85 passengers was found to be carrying more than 200 when it capsized on the Padma near Dhaka, leaving more than 100 people dead or missing. The ferry&#8217;s owner was arrested after weeks in hiding on charges of culpable homicide, unauthorized operation and overloading(\u2026)<\/p>\n<p>At least five people were killed earlier this month when a ferry sank in southern Bangladesh.<br \/>\nAFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A river ferry carrying about 100 passengers capsized in central Bangladesh on Sunday after being hit by a cargo vessel, killing at least 38 people, officials said. A rescue operation was underway, but it was not clear how many people were missing. The ferry was struck by the cargo vessel at the Daulatdia-Paturia crossing on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[142,70,143,144],"class_list":["post-963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-and-oceania","tag-bangladesh","tag-dead","tag-ferry","tag-sinking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}