BANGLADESH-FLOODS

DAC01-19980729-DHAA, BANGLADESH: An elderly Bangladeshi shops for vegetable at an inundated market in the downtown Khilgaon area of Dhaka 29 July 1998 as flood waters engulfed most low lying areas of the capital. More than half of Bangladesh is currently under the grip of floods, triggered by monsoon rains from the hills in neighbouring India, leaving 189 people dead by an unofficial count and more than 7.5 million homeless or affected. EPA PHOTO AFP/MUFTY MUNIR/AR/rab/emp/kr