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Rains lash India as death toll nears 1,000 AHMEDABAD, India, Saturday (AFP) Relentless monsoon rains lashed India Friday as troops and the air force rescued more people marooned by flooding and the nationwide death toll neared 1,000. The north and west of the agriculture-dependent country had been facing the spectre of drought but have now been inundated by the rains which have wreaked havoc in many parts of South Asia, officials said. Eleven construction workers were killed Friday when a landslide triggered by heavy rains crushed the shed in which they were sleeping in the northern Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir near an important Hindu pilgrimage route. Countrywide, the death toll was at least 994. The rains in India, Bangladesh and Nepal have triggered landslides, devastated crops, washed away roads and homes, left millions homeless and killed at least 1,815 people, according to an AFP tally since July 10 based on official figures. |
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