OUR CORRESPONDENT, Faridpur

Fire service continued its rescue operation for the third consecutive day yesterday following the sinking of a bus in the Padma river at Daulatdia Ferry Ghat in Rajbari.

“A 12-member diving team, comprising six personnel from the fire service and six from the Bangladesh Navy, resumed the rescue work after 8:00am,” Dewan Sohel Rana, deputy assistant director of the Rajbari Fire Service, told The Daily Star around 11:30am.

Md Hafizur Rahman, deputy collector of the Rajbari Deputy Commissioner’s Office, said a total of 26 bodies have been recovered so far. Of them, 25 have been handed over to their families, while one has been kept at Rajbari Sadar Hospital and will be handed over once relatives arrive from Dinajpur.

According to the district administration, families of 18 victims from Rajbari have each

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