DHAKA, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) — At least 30 people were killed and 100 others injured after a ferry caught fire early Friday on a river in Bangladesh’s Jhalokati district, about 200 km south of capital Dhaka, a senior official said.
Md Nazmul Alam, Jhalokati district’s additional deputy commissioner, told Xinhua that the vessel was carrying some 1,000 people from capital Dhaka to Barguna district in southern Banglade