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Flood-affected people rest on a bed tied to a tree outside their flooded house in the northern Indian city of Lucknow
29 Aug 2008
Source: Reuters
 
Flood-affected people rest on a bed tied to a tree outside their flooded house in the northern Indian city of Lucknow August 29, 2008. Villagers were eating uncooked rice and flour mixed with polluted water in an eastern Indian state, officials said on Friday, as hunger and diseases accompanied the worst-ever floods in 50 years. REUTERS/Pawan Kumar (INDIA)
REUTERS/PAWAN KUMAR


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An aerial view of floods caused by Tropical Storm Hanna is seen in Gonaives September 3, 2008. Haiti's civil protection office said 37 of the 90 Hanna-related deaths had occurred in ...




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