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Article: FLOOD WATERS RECEDE IN BANGLADESH.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- September 6, 1988
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Byline: Associated Press
Flood waters receded today in some of the hardest hit parts of Bangladesh, but the country still faces massive problems in getting food, medicine and safe drinking water to millions of marooned people.
"We will have to feed the people for two months at least," President Hussain Muhammad Ershad said after a helicopter flight over villages and rice paddies swamped by flood waters that cover three-fourths of this impoverished nation of 110 million people.
The floods that started in June, then eased only to surge again last week, have killed at least 406 people by government count. But this figure is generally regarded as ...