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Bangladesh ferry sinks - Most of 400 aboard feared dead
MSNBC NewsAlert ^
| 5/3/02
| MSNBC staff/Reuters
Posted on 05/03/2002 8:23:20 PM PDT by ppaul
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Horrible.
What a tragedy.
Pray for survivors, and for the victims' families.
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posted on
05/03/2002 8:23:20 PM PDT
by
ppaul
To: ppaul
This is awful. Those poor people.
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posted on
05/03/2002 8:33:22 PM PDT
by
Jean S
To: ppaul
Wasn't there another such ferry accident with heavy losses last year?
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posted on
05/03/2002 8:52:09 PM PDT
by
mikeIII
To: ppaul
How terrible. May God bless and keep them.
TC
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posted on
05/03/2002 8:54:20 PM PDT
by
I_be_tc
To: mikeIII
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posted on
05/03/2002 8:57:06 PM PDT
by
Jean S
To: mikeIII
I believe so.
I cannot remember a time in my life when there was not news of some awful tragedy happening in Bangladesh.
Floods, famine, diseases, horrible accidents and devastating storms - you name it.
You gotta feel for those poor folks.
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posted on
05/03/2002 8:58:17 PM PDT
by
ppaul
To: JeanS
Tanzania is in Africa, though.
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posted on
05/03/2002 8:59:21 PM PDT
by
ppaul
To: ppaul
You're right - this is a country beset with tragedy, and very poor. But they're sitting on some large reserves of nat. gas that they don't want to sell or use!
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posted on
05/03/2002 9:11:46 PM PDT
by
mikeIII
To: ppaul
We should thank our lucky stars everyday that we have the technology, up to date equipment, and regulations that prevent things like this from happening...what a tragedy.
To: ppaul
These happen to buses and ferries in the 3rd world with troubling frequency. I wouldn't be surprised to find that the ferry was grossly overloaded, and/or very poorly maintained.
Sadly, whether by earthquake, fire, flood, or accident, it seems that life is just cheaper in the 3rd world.
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posted on
05/03/2002 9:45:05 PM PDT
by
kezekiel
To: ppaul
Somehow, someone will blame the United States for this.
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posted on
05/03/2002 9:47:16 PM PDT
by
Timesink
To: ppaul
What a terible tragedy. Sad indeed.
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posted on
05/03/2002 9:48:56 PM PDT
by
Mixer
To: ppaul
That's terible .... can nobody swim over there or did the ferry do something unusual like flip over or explode ?
I think 15 out of 400 is worse odds than the Titanic surivivors.
To: ppaul
The lesson: don't ride on overloaded ferrys in the third world, especially in a thunderstorm. How many of these things have to sink each year before people figure that out?
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posted on
05/03/2002 10:03:28 PM PDT
by
PsyOp
To: PsyOp
Usually, the people who sink in these things don't have a choice. Hailing a taxi isn't exactly an alternative for most of the Bangladeshi poor.
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posted on
05/03/2002 10:19:28 PM PDT
by
AM2000
To: AM2000
Not getting on an overloaded boat in a storm is always a choice.
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posted on
05/03/2002 10:21:40 PM PDT
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PsyOp
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To: ppaul
UPDATE - The estimated passenger count was revised downward to about 150, and 35 were rescued.
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posted on
05/03/2002 10:57:52 PM PDT
by
HAL9000
To: ppaul
Yet another tragic disaster in Bangladesh. Seems like news from Bangladesh is never good news.
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