In Bangladesh, twenty seven people have died after a passenger launch capsized in the river Meghna Wednesday night in Sarail upazila of Brahmanbaria which is about 109 kilometers away from Dhaka. Brahmanbaria Deputy Commissioner Mohammed Abdul Mannan told AIR correspondent in Dhaka that twenty seven bodies were recovered till Thursday evening which included seven women and two children. The launch was reportedly carrying around seventy passengers when the accident occurred last night.