DHAKA, Aug. 6 -- The death toll of Monday's ferry capsizal in Bangladesh's central Munshiganj district has risen to 11 on Wednesday morning after another seven bodies were retrieved far away from the site where the vessel sank with some 250 passengers on board, police said.

"Another seven missing bodies were recovered on Wednesday morning which takes the number of total death toll to 11 from four on Tuesday," Kaniz Fatema, assistant superintendent of police, told Xinhua from Munshiganj district.

Meanwhile, she said another body was spotted floating in the river water in a neighboring district but it was washed away again in surge giving no time for recovery.

According to the official, some 112 people are still missing.

She had earlier said that some 120 people, who survived by swimming, were rescued shortly after the ferry capsized in high winds and rain on the Padma's Maowa-Kewrakandi river route.

Two days after the accident occurred, divers from the Fire Brigade and Civil Defense, the Bangladesh Navy and the Coast Guard are still struggling to locate the sunken ferry.

Many victims of the accident are believed to be trapped below deck.

Hundreds of relatives and friends of the ill-fated passengers Wednesday gathered at the accident site in the quest for the missing.

The overloaded ferry Pinak-6, with some 250 passengers on board, capsized in Padma, one of the three rivers that form the Ganges Delta, at around 11:15 a.m. local time Monday.

Ferry and boat disasters are common in Bangladesh, which is criss-crossed by about 250 rivers. Ferry is still a key means of transport in the South Asian country.