27 killed, 100 injured in ferry fire in Bangladesh

A fire broke out in a ferry in Bangladesh's Jhalkoti district on Friday morning. 27 people aboard the ferry have died and 100 people have been injured in the fire. Additional deputy commissioner of Jhalokati district, Mohammad Najmul Alam, said around 1,000 people were on the ferry and the ferry was going from Dhaka to Barguna district. The accident happened at a distance of 200 km from Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh.