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The number of casualties reached 42 and some 20 passengers remained missing, a day after a launch capsized in the river Ghorautra in Nikli Upazila under Kishoreganj district, police said Tuesday.

Four dead bodies recovered Monday were identified as Renu Mia, 45, Dhiresh Chandra Das, 30, Sakhina, 55 and two and a half year old Chandra Das.

Assistant superintendent of police Asaduzzman from the scene said Monday that a passenger launch MV Chanpur bound for Mithamain Upazila was caught in a storm at about 4.30 pm and sank in the Ghorautra river in Ghoradia area.

The rescue operation began in full swing Monday after BIWTA rescue team from Dhaka reached there.

Relatives and friends of the hapless passengers thronged the spot, anxiously waiting for news about the missing.

The position of the sunken launch has been ascertained.

Md Abdus Salam, deputy director, Dhaka office of the Fire Service and Abdur Razzak, a BIWTA diver said, more dead bodies might still remain trapped inside the launch, all of which would be recovered by midday.

Kishoreganj deputy commissioner Sultan Ahmad and Superintendent of Police M Mizanur Rahman visited the scene Tuesday morning.

Sultan Ahmad said the launch would be rescued later in the day.

Badal Saha, a survivor who was traveling by the launch, said that there were about 150 passengers on board.

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