Trawler Tragedy

A senior British Royal Navy officer on Tuesday denied that one of its submarines was responsible for the sinking of a French fishing trawler, which went down off the English coast nearly 18 years ago.

At least 33 people died in Bangladesh today when a passenger ferry capsized after colliding with a trawler on the river Padma with more than 100 people aboard, police said.

One more body was found on Sunday, taking the death toll to 19 in the sinking of an overloaded trawler with pilgrims on board near Talpatty island in the Hooghly river at the confluence of the Bay of Bengal, official sources said.     So far 17 of the bodies, which were recovered after the trawler capsized and sank yesterday whe...

A senior British Royal Navy officer on Tuesday denied that one of its submarines was responsible for the sinking of a French fishing trawler, which went down off the English coast nearly 18 years ago.

At least 33 people died in Bangladesh today when a passenger ferry capsized after colliding with a trawler on the river Padma with more than 100 people aboard, police said.

One more body was found on Sunday, taking the death toll to 19 in the sinking of an overloaded trawler with pilgrims on board near Talpatty island in the Hooghly river at the confluence of the Bay of Bengal, official sources said.     So far 17 of the bodies, which were recovered after the trawler capsized and sank yesterday whe...