As many as 200 people are feared dead after a ferry capsized in Bangladesh.
Rescuers have retreived 111 bodies and nearly 90 people are still missing.
Fire service and navy divers pulled out nearly 30 bodies after efforts to salvage the sunken ferry resumed early today. More bodies may be found when the ferry is salvaged.
The M.V. Maharaj, which officials said was believed to have been carrying some 200 people, had been sailing to the southern town of Chandpur from Dhaka when it was caught in a tropical storm on the Buriganga river late on Saturday.
Only a handful of people appeared to have survived.
The exact number of casualties or people on board the ferry is unlikely to be determined because most Bangladeshi ferry companies do not keep passenger lists and often take on loads beyond their capacity.
Hundreds of grieving people thronged the Buriganga banks, hoping to find missing relatives or to take home bodies already identified.
The ferry had been packed with people heading home for a holiday to mark the Muslim ritual of Ashura.
