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Workers and emergency personnel clear the scene following a train crash in Bangladesh which killed at least 17 people and injured 100 others. The crash in the eastern city of Bhairab saw a freight train smash into a passenger train travelling in the opposite direction, derailing two passenger carriages. IMAGES
A devastating cyclone has left at least 36 people dead in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, prompting local authorities to declare a state of emergency. Thousands are still in need of rescue after torrential rains and flooding submerged entire neighborhoods. This is the latest in a series of extreme weather events to hit the South American country. In June, 13 people died and thousands were forced to leave their homes when another cyclone hit the same state.
Associated Press journalists at the scene saw covered bodies on the ground and emergency workers extinguishing fires at market stalls, with blackened mangled cars nearby
Flooded streets in the city of Novo Hamburgo as a cyclone tore through southern Brazil killing at least 11 people and forcing thousands from their homes, according to authorities. Another 10 people are missing after the storm in Rio Grande do Sul state Thursday and Friday, reducing this figure from 20 given earlier. IMAGES
Bangladeshis and Rohingya refugees begin repairing damaged homes, cutting up fallen trees, searching through debris and retrieving scattered possessions, after Cyclone Mocha swept through the South Asian nation. Bangladesh officials said they had evacuated 750,000 people and that no-one had died in the cyclone.
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