Bangladeshi firefighters and volunteers are watched by bystanders as they search for bodies after a landslide in Rangamati on June 13, 2017. -AFP
CHITTAGONG: Rescue workers were Wednesday battling to reach remote areas of Bangladesh hit by landslides and heavy rains that have killed at least 137 people, with dozens more missing.
Authorities say hundreds of hillside homes were buried by landslides in the southeast of the country as people slept in the early hours of Tuesday.
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