 3. Boat sinking Rescuers on Sunday searched for survivors after an overcrowded boat carrying around 150 people capsized* on a river in northeastern Bangladesh leaving at least 37 dead, all of them women and children. Local police chief Jane Alam said most passengers were asleep when the boat rammed* a cargo vessel and sank on Saturday night in the middle of the river Surma at Alipur, 240 kilometers northeast of the capital Dhaka. | 