Dhaka Swamped By Monsoons - 1,000+ Dead Across S. Asia - Reuters

[hatrack]

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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http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/26299/story.htm

[htuttle]

1. Most of Bhangladesh is probably going to disappear in the next 20 years

I think most of the country is about 6 inches about sea level.

[Gildor Inglorion]

2. Good Lord...what will happen to the 120 million people

who live there? The place is only about as big as Wisconsin to begin with! When will the human race wake up and face the HORRENDOUS problem of overpopulation? (Rhetorical question; I know the answer is "never," but one needs a smidgin of hope....) ;(

[Nihil]

3. Gaia's balancing act?

Sounds like Mother Nature has got fed up of waiting for the human race
to wake up and is sorting it out for herself.