DHAKA (AFP) – At least 12 people, including 10 children, drowned after a packed ferry capsized in northeastern Bangladesh on Tuesday, officials said, as rescuers searched for more bodies.

The accident happened in remote Sunamganj district, 140 kilometres (85 miles) north of the capital Dhaka, district administrator Kamrul Alam told AFP.
""The bodies of six schoolgirls, four small children and two women have been recovered so far,"" Alam said, adding that the ferry was overloaded.
He said a search-and-rescue operation was under way, with some of the ferry's estimated 60 to 70 passengers still missing, although he added that most people were believed to have swum to safety.
About 40 children on board the small passenger ferry were on their way to school, said district police chief Golam Kibria.
Five people rescued from the boat had been sent to the local hospital after nearly drowning, he added.
The ferry was travelling from Balijuri village to Badshaganj village.
Boat and ferry accidents due to lax safety standards and overloading are common in Bangladesh, which is criss-crossed by 230 rivers.
At least 16 people died last month in a boat accident after an overloaded ferry sank in Kishorganj district.
At least 85 people drowned in November last year when the overloaded triple-decker ferry MV Coco-4 capsized off Bhola Island in the country's south.
A week later another boat sunk in the northeast, leaving 46 people dead.