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Bangladesh has deployed the army to help nearly two million people stranded by flood waters after torrential monsoon rains inundated large swathes of land for the second time in two weeks.
"The situation is very worrying, and more than two million people are now stranded due to the floods," the director of the flood-affected Sylhet district, Muhammad Musharraf Hussain, was quoted by AFP as saying. "People have taken refuge in boats. We have deployed the army and are trying to evacuate them."
Hussain noted that the authorities have sent army personnel to the flood-hit rural towns, where soldiers are distributing aid to those affected and rescuing people from the rising tide.
Authorities have suspended examinations in secondary schools in most parts of the country as school buildings are being used to house people displaced by the floods.
Late last month, the worst floods in two decades hit the Sylhet region, killing 10 people and affecting four million others.
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