Boat capsized while carrying about 100 Hindu pilgrims in northern Bangladesh. Boat overturned while returning from a Hindu temple in Panchagarh district. About 8% of the more than 160 million people in Muslim-majority Bangladesh are Hindu. Police chief: Many people were able to swim ashore, but scores of people remain missing. About 80% of Bangladesh’s population are Hindu, according to local media reports in Bengali-language newspaper Prothom Alo. The boat overturned on the Karatoa River on Sunday, local police chief said.Read Long Article
