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Bus Plunges into Padma River in Bangladesh, 18 Bodies Recovered

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Dhaka, March 26 (IANS) At least eighteen bodies were retrieved after a bus carrying dozens of passengers plunged into the Padma River from a pontoon at a terminal in Bangladesh’s Rajbari district, some 125 km south of Dhaka. The accident occurred at around 5:15 p.m. local time on Wednesday when the Dhaka-bound passenger bus lost control, overturned, and sank to an estimated depth of 80 feet, according to the Fire Service.Sultana Akhtar, Rajbari’s deputy commissioner and district magistrate, told…