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Philippine soldiers load sacks of rice onto a US military helicopter as part of relief operations following Typhoon Fengshen at an airport in Iloilo City central Philippines
28 Jun 2008
Source: Reuters
 
Philippine soldiers load sacks of rice onto a US military helicopter as part of relief operations following Typhoon Fengshen at an airport in Iloilo City central Philippines June 28, 2008. The overall death toll from the typhoon could top 1,300, including 540 people killed in a torrent of flooding that tore up trees and bridges, destroyed homes and forced over two million people to evacuate. Damage to agriculture and infrastructure was pegged at nearly 7 billion pesos ($156 million). REUTERS/Leo Solinap (PHILIPPINES)
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A rescue worker rows a boat through a flooded residential area after heavy monsoon rains in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad August 11, 2008. Heavy monsoon rains killed 15 people ...




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