{"id":85843,"date":"2014-05-15T19:06:28","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T15:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=85843"},"modified":"2014-05-15T19:06:28","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T15:06:28","slug":"bangladesh-ferry-sinks-during-storm-8-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=85843","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh Ferry Sinks During Storm; 8 Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ferry9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-85841\" alt=\"ferry9\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ferry9.jpg\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ferry9.jpg 624w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ferry9-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ferry9-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a>A ferry carrying more than 100 passengers capsized and sank Thursday in a river in central Bangladesh after being hit by a storm, and eight bodies have been recovered, an official said.<\/p>\n<p>Many people swam to safety after the accident and it was unclear how many remained missing, local government administrator Saiful Hasan said. Ferries in Bangladesh often don&#8217;t have accurate passenger manifests.<\/p>\n<p>He said the ferry M.V. Miraz-4 sank in the River Meghna as it was traveling toward Shariatpur from the capital, Dhaka. The accident took place when it was in Munshiganj district.<\/p>\n<p>Ferry accidents are common in Bangladesh, a low-lying delta nation, because of overcrowding, faulty vessels and lax rules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A ferry carrying more than 100 passengers capsized and sank Thursday in a river in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":85841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}