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Event: HT Heat Wave
Number: 2005-000074
Country: BGD Bangladesh
Location: northern Bangladesh
Date (YMD): 2005-6-3
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Information Source:Reuters AlertNet
Comments: A heat wave sweeping India, Bangladesh and Nepal has killed nearly 100 people over the past two weeks, officials said on Friday. A third of the people died in northern Bangladesh, mostly women and children from dehydration, heat stroke and diarrhoea.
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