Death toll from monsoon storms rise to 119 in Bangladesh

The death toll from monsoon storms rose to 119 on Wednesday after rescuers found 11 more bodies overnight in southeastern Bangladesh, where the heaviest rains in years have triggered mudslides and floods, officials said. 

The bodies were pulled from rubble in the worst-hit city of Chittagong, city official Nur Sulaiman said. Most of the deaths have occurred in the hilly port city, where rescuers were searching through debris for survivors, he said. 

The annual monsoon rains have spread across Bangladesh in the past few days, and the rains _ the heaviest recorded in seven years _ also have inundated parts of the capital, Dhaka, and other regions of the country. 

Bangladesh, a low-lying delta nation of 150 million people, is buffeted by floods that kill hundreds of people every year and often displace millions.