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Helicopters and speed boats tried to reach nearly 570,000 stranded villagers Monday as the death toll from heavy monsoon rains and flooding across India reached 119 in the past three days.
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In this Sept. 7, 2008 file photo, a woman sits with her grandson in her flooded home at Jafragonj, 40 kilometers (25miles) north of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Thousands of villagers have been displaced due to floods in northern Bangladesh.
