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DHAKA, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from a sunken boat packed with Rohingya people fleeing from Myanmar in a border river in southeastern Bangladesh rose to 20 on Thursday after another 14 bodies were retrieved.
Chailau Marma, additional superintendent of police in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar district, some 292 km southeast of the capital of Dhaka, told Xinhua that "14 bodies were recovered from the Bangladesh coast on Thursday morning."
"Six more bodies were found Wednesday," he said.
The police official said they did not know exactly what number of Rohingya people were on board of the boat that sank Wednesday in Naf River that divides Bangladesh and Myanmar.
