Four people, including a woman and her son, died in separate incidents of boat capsize in the Buriganga river during Sunday night's storm, reports UNB.
Two young men died as a trawler capsized in the Buriganga river near Keraniganj.
The deceased were identified as Sabbir Hossain, 18, son of Shahidul Islam, and Tuhin, 20, son of Afzal Hossain, both hailing from Shariatpur, used to live in the Dakhshin Rasulpur area.
Shaker Mohammad Jubayer, officer-in-charge of Dakhshin Keraniganj Model Police Station, said the youths went missing as the boat carrying them sank in the river amid storm while they were crossing it around 7:00pm.
Later, the bodies were retrieved from the river around 8:30pm.
Meanwhile, Rumi Akhter, 30, wife of Ziaur Rahman and her three-year old son Ali Hossain, residents of Madrasapara in Kamrangirchar of the capital, died as a boat carrying them capsized in the river near Borishur ghat in Keraniganj.
Sub-inspector Rasel of Keraniganj Model Police Station, said Rumi along with son went missing after the boat carrying them sank in the river around 7:30pm while they were going to Keraniganj from Zianagar.
Later, their bodies were retrieved from the river around 8:00pm.
Meanwhile, the body of the female Ansar member, who went missing after a trawler capsized in the Meghna river with 19 election officials during a storm at Char Hogla in Sonargaon upazila in Narayanganj district on Sunday evening, was recovered from the Ismanirchar area in the river on Monday morning.
The deceased was identified as Rita Akhter, 35. A team of coast guard retrieved the body in the morning.
Presiding Officer Burhan Uddin, 38, official of UCB Bank, and Md Selim, 40, assistant town sub-inspector of Narayanganj Traffic Police, are still missing, said an Coast Guard official.
