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Myanmar Landslide Toll Rises to Nearly 50

Agence France-Presse

   MAWLAMYINE, MYANMAR - Myanmar troops deployed to flood-hit parts of the
   country Sunday to help with relief efforts after the death toll from a
   deadly landslide jumped to 48.

   Every year monsoon rains hammer Myanmar and other countries across
   Southeast Asia, submerging homes, displacing thousands and triggering
   landslides.

   But the disaster Friday in southeastern Mon state was the worst in
   recent memory, and hundreds of emergency response workers were still
   pulling bodies out of the muddy wreckage early Sunday.

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