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    I'm furious about my squandered nation.

    Tuesday, June 12, 2007

    108 Die in Bangladesh Mudslides, Floods

    The heaviest recorded rainfall levels in seven years have also inundated parts of the capital, Dhaka, and other regions.

    Bangladesh, a low-lying delta nation of 150 million people, is buffeted by cyclones and floods that kill hundreds each year. A powerful cyclone in 1991 killed 139,000 people.

    Densely populated and grindingly poor, the country is filled with slums that are particularly vulnerable -- the one hit in Chittagong was home to 700 people, most of them migrant workers and their families who lived in clusters of straw-and-bamboo or mud-and-tin shanties built on the slope of hill, survivors said.

    Dulu Mia Munshi, a rickshaw puller, said he lost five family members, including his wife and two young sons.

    "There was a sudden rush of mud and water, and our home was swept away," Munshi told The Associated Press by telephone from his hospital bed. Five other neighboring shanties on a slope were also washed away.

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