600,000 stranded in BD floods
September 8, 2008 DHAKA (AFP) - At least 600,000 people have been stranded and some 14,000 are sheltering in relief centres after floods across Bangladesh dramatically worsened, a minister said on Sunday.
Disaster management minister A.M. Shawkat Ali told AFP that the army had been called in to help rescue efforts in the worst hit districts as the number of trapped people soared.
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