Millions homeless after floods

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Dhaka - Residents waded through sewage and rowed boats through this flooded city of 10 million people on Tuesday, as 109 more people died, bringing the toll from monsoon rains in South Asia to 1 187.

The new deaths in Bangladesh, which raised the delta nation's flood toll to 394, came as waters receded in some flooded areas, said the government. Most of the deaths were caused by drowning, lightning, snakebites and outbreaks of waterborne diseases.

The flooding in Dhaka, Bangladesh's capital, has not only affected shanty towns built in low-lying areas, but residential neighborhoods and parts of the central business district.

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,6119,2-10-1462_1563848,00.html

[TrogL]

1. Why don't they simply evacuate Bangladesh permanently

The place in uninhabitable.

[indigobusiness]

2. So is L.A.

There's no place like home.

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. population 140 million

It's not easy to find room for that many people.