Many villagers are using boats to get around. Flood waters washed away a railroad culvert in eastern Brahmmanbaria district, cutting off railway links with Dhaka, Bangladesh Railway said in a statement. Engineers were working to restore the line. Three men drowned in flood waters in southern Barguna district. Bangladesh, a lowlying delta nation of 130 million people, is buffeted by annual floods.
Hundreds die every year.
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