At least five people died and a further 50 are missing after a ferry carrying several hundred passengers partially sank in southern Bangladesh.
Local police said the accident happened as the MV Coco-4, one of the country's largest inland vessels, approached a river station near Lalmohan on Bhola Island, around 300km south of Dhaka.
The ferry listed as passengers, many travelling home for the Eid al-Adha festival, rushed to one side of the boat to disembark.
Speaking to AFP local police chief Zakir Hossain said: "It was overcrowded with over 1,000 passengers. It tilted and part of it sank due to crowd pressure as it arrived near the Nazirpur river station."
The majority of the missing passengers are feared to have been on the lower tier of the triple-deck ferry as it went down.
Divers are searching for survivors and a rescue boat is at the scene attempting to salvage the ferry.
Ferry accidents are frequent along Bangladesh's waterways and are typically attributed to overcrowding and unsafe vessels.
Ferry operators frequently fail to keep lists of passenger numbers.
An officer from the inland water transport authority said: "At festival time it is really difficult to stop passengers and relevant ferry operators from flouting rules."
File photo of a boat on water near Bhola. A ferry has sunk in Bangladesh earlier today, killing at least five people, according to authorities. About fifty more people were missing after the incident.

Police said that the accident occurred as the vessel, called the ''MV Coco-4'', came near a river station at Bhola Island, located 300 kilometres from the Bangladesh capital of Dhaka. The ferry was reportedly overcrowded, and the boat tipped to one side as all its passengers moved to disembark.

"It was overcrowded with over 1,000 passengers. It tilted and part of it sank due to crowd pressure as it arrived near the Nazirpur river station," said a local police chief, Zakir Hossain, to the Agence France-Presse news agency. He also added that "many passengers have managed to land safely. But we believe some others who were staying in the cabins were trapped under water. We are trying to rescue them," Rescue teams and divers are reportedly searching underwater for bodies.

Ferry accidents are not infrequent in the country; incidents have usually been due to overcrowding, or the use of old vessels. "At festival time it is really difficult to stop passengers and relevant ferry operators from flouting rules," said an officer for the Bangladesh water authority.