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Monsoon floods swamp north India
At least 30 people were killed and hundreds of thousands were forced to evacuate after monsoon rains swept across India's remote northeast, officials said on Tuesday.
- Agencies
- Published: 12:22 June 17, 2008
Guwahati: At least 30 people were killed and hundreds of thousands were forced to evacuate after monsoon rains swept across India's remote northeast, officials said on Tuesday.
Monsoon season began two weeks early in northern India, swamping about 500 villages in waist-deep water, in northern Assam and leaving about 300,000 people homeless.
A series of landslides, floods and collapsed buildings killed at least 30 over the weekend, officials in Assam and neighbouring Arunachal Pradesh state said.
Thirteen drowned in overnight flooding in Assam.
Authorities have set up temporary shelters for the homeless, but some complained there were not enough.
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