DHAKA, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) — At least 38 people were killed and 100 others wounded when a ferry caught fire in Bangladesh’s Jhalokati district, about 200 km south of capital Dhaka early Friday, a senior official said.
Md Nazmul Alam, Jhalokati district’s additional deputy commissioner, told Xinhua that the vessel was carrying nearly 1,000 people from Dhaka to Barguna district in southern Bangladesh.
He said