RAILWAY ENGINEERS GESTURES FOR A TRAIN TO PASS BY IN ARIKHOLA, 1998-09-09 (photo)

Railway engineers and employees stand in floodwater to signal for a train to pass over submerged tracks at Arikhola, 40 kilometres from the Bangladesh capital of Dhaka September 9. The floods, triggered by heavy monsoon rains and fed by water flowing down from the Himalayas via India, have ravaged this South Asian country for two months, killing at least 770 people, disaster management officials said. Millions have been left homeless or marooned by the country's most prolonged natural disaster, which has also caused huge damage to crops and infrastructure. AN/JO/FMS