Bangladesh Floods Maroon at Least 65,000
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Floodwaters from upstream India have swamped some 80 villages in southwestern Bangladesh, marooning at least 65,000 people, officials said Sunday.
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More rains are expected across Africa, as flooding affects more than 1m people across 17 countries.
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CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh -- Mudslides caused by monsoon rains buried bamboo and straw shacks in shantytowns and collapsed brick houses in southeastern Bangladesh yesterday, killing at least 67 people. Another 11 died when they were struck by lightning, rescue officials and witnesses said.
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Â· Nearly 200 drowned and 650,000 homes destroyed Â· UN appeals for aid as food sent to seven countries
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Large swathes of Bangladesh were  underwater again on Sunday after heavy rains, adding to the  misery of millions hit by flooding that has killed more than  830 people since late July.
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Flooding in Haiti kills at least 556 people in the wake of tropical storm Jeanne, UN officials say.
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Landslides and lightning strikes have left dozens dead in Bangladesh as torrential monsoon rains pounded the disaster-prone country, officials said Monday.
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Unseasonably heavy downpours have triggered landslides and submerged large areas in northeastern India, Bangladesh and Nepal for the past three days, leaving at least 144 people dead, officials said.
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GUWAHATI, India  - Soldiers in motor boats rescued thousands of marooned people and helicopters air-dropped food as the number of people made homeless after some of the worst flooding in years in India's northeast rose to 3.5 million.
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In 1970, a powerful cyclone killed nearly half a million people along the impoverished coastline of Bangladesh. Some 138,000 people perished in yet another cyclone that mauled its coastline two decades later.
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Storms that battered Bangladesh and   eastern India have killed more than 170 people and left many   missing, navy and coastguard officials said on Saturday.
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Floods, landslides and lightning strikes have left dozens dead in Bangladesh as torrential monsoon rains pounded the disaster-prone country, officials said Monday.
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More than a million people across a swathe of 17 African countries are  suffering the effects of severe floods.
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Rain and landslides have killed at least  68 people in Bangladesh as early monsoon showers swept the  country, officials said on Monday.
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The death toll in disastrous flooding in Haiti has risen to some 1,650, with about 800 people still missing, a government official said on Sunday.
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Large swathes of Bangladesh were underwater again on Sunday after heavy rains, adding to the misery of millions hit by flooding that has killed more than 830 people since late July.
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At least 65 people are known to have been killed by Hurricane Felix in Nicaragua and Honduras, officials say.