Nearly a million stranded in floods in eastern India
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Floods in eastern India have left nearly a million people stranded, authorities said Saturday, as the nationwide death toll from torrential monsoon rains hit 655.
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China issued emergency flood warnings for central and eastern parts of the nation Tuesday, after torrential downpours led to the deaths of at least 127 in the past eight days.
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The number of people killed after storms   hit eastern India and Bangladesh rose to nearly 100 with dozens   of bodies of fishermen washing up along the coast, officials   said on Thursday.
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Rescuers in northeastern India have recovered at least 23 more bodies after flash floods, bringing the death toll from new rains in the state of Assam to at least 88.
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Heavy rains caused flooding across parts  of eastern Australia on Saturday, forcing the evacuation of  hundreds of people as rural towns throughout the area were put  on flood alert.
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GUWAHATI, India  - At least 62 bodies were  recovered after flash floods in Assam state, taking the death  toll from fresh flooding in the past three days to 88, police  and rescue workers said on Sunday.
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The death toll in flash floods in Goalpara district of Assam state in northeast India rose Mondayto 133 with the recovery of 14 more bodies since Sunday night, thePress Trust
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PONDICHERRY/MADRAS, India  - Thousands of  villagers huddled in emergency shelters on India's southeast  coast overnight, too scared to sleep in case more tsunamis  struck after a giant wave killed up to 3,300 people.
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Monsoon flooding has forced more than 30,000 people in eastern Sri Lanka from their homes, with many taking refuge in temporary shelters like huts, schools and mosques, officials said on Thursday.
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Floods unleashed by torrential rain have killed at least 118 people and left 86 missing in southwest China. Authorities yesterday called in thousands of army and navy personnel to help after five days of continual
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Recovery efforts were under way in eastern Sri Lanka after overloaded boats carrying refugees from the rebel-held Vakarai region capsized.  At least 13 people are feared drowned, the BBC reported.  Fighting in the area in recent weeks has displaced tens of thousands of people.
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Tribal people are facing starvation in eastern India where cholera has killed scores in recent weeks.
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GUWAHATI, India  - Soldiers in motor boats rescued thousands of marooned people and helicopters air-dropped food as the number of people made homeless after some of the worst flooding in years in India's northeast rose to 3.5 million.
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At least 62 bodies were recovered after flash floods in Assam state, taking the death toll from fresh flooding in the past three days to 88, police and rescue workers said on Sunday.
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Three days of heavy rain and flash floods killed 57 people across several Indian states and forced more than 100,000 from their homes, officials said Saturday.
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More than 100 people die in flash floods in India's north-eastern state of Assam in recent days.
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A powerful storm triggered landslides and flash floods that killed nearly 340 people in the eastern Philippines, officials said on Tuesday, and rescuers raced to save people stranded in three coastal towns before a new typhoon strikes the region.