Dhaka, April 12 -- A couple expecting a baby had picked Eid-ul-Fitr day for a hassle-free journey home, but a mooring rope snapped and lashed them dead along with their 3-year-old daughter as launches at Sadarghat terminal in Dhaka were competing for more passengers.

Relatives of Billal Hossain, 30, his pregnant wife Mukta Begum, 26, their daughter Maisha Akter, and the still-born baby were in utter disbelief, wailing in pain of losing their loved ones while waiting for the bodies at Sir Salimullah Medical College Mitford Hospital on Thursday.

Mukta and Billal avoided the Eid rush in the hope of a comfortable journey but could not escape death as their journey to the south became their last.

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