Seventy-two more bodies have washed ashore days after an overcrowded ferry sank with about 750 people on board in southern Bangladesh, officials in Chandpur said today.

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

A village in eastern Bangladesh has cooked up an answer to the threat of floods - fortune cookies filled with religious writings.

By Anis Ahmed, Dhaka FLOODS sweeping Bangladesh marooned 500,000 people, killing at least 11, but appeared to be subsiding yesterday, officials said.

Bangladesh navy frogmen have joined in the search for bodies after a ferry carrying 500 people sank in a storm.