At least 35 people continued to be missing and presumed drowned Saturday in Bangladesh after a crowded coach plunged into a fast flowing river, police said, according to DPA. The accident occurred Friday when the coach went out of control on a highway bridge near the trading township of Aminbazar about 25 kilometres north of the capital Dhaka. Police and witnesses originally feared the accident may have cost more than 40 lives but rescue workers later saved another six survivors, four of them women, said police sergeant Mohammad Nasim. There had been more than 50 apparel factory workers travelling on the coach, which was heading towards Dhaka. About ten persons were able to swim on their own to the banks as the coach sank into the Turag river, witnesses said.
