A Bangladeshi villager carrys his goat through floodwaters in the village of Uttar Ujirpur, near the northwestern town of Chapai Nawabganj, 325 km (203 miles) from Dhaka, on September 18, 2003. Nearly 300,000 people have been marooned and 200,000 others have been forced to seek shelter as floods spread across northwestern Bangladesh over the past week.
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