National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel carry a sick woman during a rescue operation in an area affected by floods due to monsoon rains, in the Barpeta district of the Eastern state of Assam, India on July 12, 2020. BIJU BORO / AFP / Getty New Delhi – Floods caused …
Read More »Floods in India, Nepal displace nearly four million people, at least 189 dead
GUWAHATI, India / KATHMANDU, Nepal (Reuters) – Nearly four million people in the northeastern state of Assam and neighboring Nepal have been displaced by heavy floods from the monsoon rains, and dozens disappeared when deaths rose to at least 189, government officials said Sunday. . FILE PHOTO: Girls rowed a …
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A third of Bangladesh is underwater after some of the heaviest rains in a decade, officials said. Almost four million people have also been affected by monsoon floods in South Asia. The monsoon, which generally falls from June to September, is crucial to the economy of the Indian subcontinent, but …
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