Thousands marooned in Bangladesh floods
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At least 72,000 people have been marooned by flooding after rivers in northern and central Bangladesh burst their banks.
The Flood Forecasting Centre warned that the country's three major rivers - the Ganges, the Brahmaputra and the Meghna - are all rising fast.
Bangladesh is criss-crossed by a network of 230 rivers and suffers annual floods, with at least a fifth of the country submerged each year.
