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A view of submerged houses in the flood-hit Jajpur village
22 Sep 2008
Source: Reuters
 
A view of submerged houses in the flood-hit Jajpur village, 80 km (50 miles) east of the eastern Indian city of Bhubaneshwar, September 22, 2008. Authorities battling floods in eastern India said on Monday they were struggling to rescue thousands of people stranded in remote villages as bad weather and swift river currents hampered rescue attempts. REUTERS/Sanjib Mukherjee (INDIA)
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A man wades through the flooded lawns of submerged ashram, a Hindu residential school, in Vrindavan near the northern Indian city of Mathura September 26, 2008. Doctors and health workers struggled ...




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