MANIKGANJ, Bangladesh (AP) – Three ferry accidents in Bangladesh in the past week have left at least 133 people dead, officials said Friday as hope faded for 187 people still missing

Twelve more bodies recovered Friday in the Padma River were all from the M.L. Raipura, a double-deck ferry that went down during a storm Tuesday with about 250 people on board in Manikganj district, 25 miles northwest of the capital, Dhaka.

Another 157 people were unaccounted for, said Abdur Razzak, a police diver. “Decomposing bodies are now surfacing in the river,” he said. “There is very little chance of finding alive those who are still missing.”

Strong currents hampered efforts to recover the ferry, said Lt. Comm. Mahbubur Rashid.

Meanwhile, in southern Bhola district, rescuers searched for about 30 people missing after a trawler with more than 100 aboard sank in a storm Thursday night, said police officer Mozammel Hossain. No bodies had been recovered from that accident.

The wooden fishing boat sank in the mouth of the Meghna River, 65 miles south of Dhaka. At least 70 people swam ashore or were rescued by passing boats, Hossain said.

Searchers used fishing nets to scour the rough waters on Friday, but failed to find the boat, Hossain said.

Akijuddin Ahmed stood on the river bank in Manikganj on Friday, waiting for word on his two missing sons.

“I don’t know what has happened to my sons, but I want to see them again, dead or alive,” the farmworker said.

On Sunday, an overcrowded ferry carrying a wedding party sank in a storm in southern Patuakhali district, killing at least 88 people.

Ferry accidents are common in this South Asian nation crisscrossed by rivers.