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DHAKA, Bangladesh – Rescuers on Monday recovered 17 more bodies from a boat that capsized while carrying about 100 Hindu pilgrims in northern Bangladesh, bringing the confirmed death toll to 41, according to police and media. .
Dozens of people are still missing since Sunday’s crash, the largest Bengali-language newspaper Prothom Alo reported.
The boat overturned while returning from a Hindu temple on the Karatoa River in Panchagarh district in northern Bangladesh, local police chief SM Sirajul Huda said. Twenty-four bodies were recovered on Sunday.
Huda said many people were able to swim to shore.
About 8% of the over 160 million people in Muslim-majority Bangladesh are Hindus.