Rescuers dug out 20 more bodies and continued searching for more on Tuesday as heavy rain caused havoc in the Bangladesh port city of Chittagong, officials said, as the country’s total flood-related deaths neared 130. Authorities have engaged excavators to remove the mud to get the bodies exhumed quickly.

Police battled political activists throwing bombs and stones in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, on Tuesday, leaving dozens injured on the third day of a transport blockade called to scuttle elections. The clashes erupted in the Fakirapool area of Dhaka when the activists tried to storm police barricades and march to the presidential palace.

A series of small bombs wounded eight people in the Bangladeshi capital as a transport shutdown to force the dismissal of election officials paralysed the country for a fourth day on Wednesday. Witnesses said the overnight blasts near the office of the Awami League triggered widespread panic in Dhaka.