Dhaka Swamped By Monsoons - 1,000+ Dead Across S. Asia - Reuters [View All]

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DHAKA - "A boat carrying people to a flood shelter capsized in Bangladesh this week pushing the death toll higher as the worst flooding in years turned the capital, Dhaka, into an open sewer and disease spread. The death toll from three weeks of devastation in Bangladesh is more than 400 and across south Asia floods have killed more than 1,000, officials said.

A boat taking people to a shelter in Narsingdi, 100 km (60 miles) from Dhaka, capsized, drowning 11 people, officials said. About two-thirds of the low-lying and impoverished nation is under water in the worst floods in 15 years.

Disaster relief officials said new deaths were reported from all over the country from drowning, disease and snakebites and when houses collapsed. The floods have also killed as many as 630 people in India's eastern state of Bihar and northeastern state of Assam."

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