Bangladesh under siege as flood misery deepens

FLOOD waters that have submerged two-thirds of Bangladesh leaving 30 million people cut off or homeless will not recede for at least a week, experts warned as the death toll across Asia rose to 101,187.

Residents of the Bangladesh capital Dhaka waded through sewage and rowed boats through the flooded city of 10 million people yesterday as 109 more people died there.

Nearly half of the capital has been inundated turning some streets into rivers and forcing 250,000 of the city's most vulnerable inhabitants out of their slum homes.