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A father and child travel on a boat in the flooded Kokormara village
09 Sep 2007
Source: Reuters
 
A father and child travel on a boat in the flooded Kokormara village, about 55 km (34 miles) west of Guwahati, the major city of India’s north eastern state of Assam, September 9, 2007. Rains have triggered fresh floods in the Indian states of West Bengal, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh, officials said.
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