A powerful bomb ripped through a crowded street in northern Bangladesh today, killing at least six people and wounding dozens in an attack police said may have been carried out by a suicide bomber on a bicycle.

OVERCROWDING may have caused the death of 600 people who were missing and feared dead yesterday after a river ferry capsized in southern Bangladesh.

Around 600 people were missing feared dead today after a ferry packed with at least 750 passengers capsized in a rain-swollen river in southern Bangladesh, rescue officials said.