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India: Flash Flood: 2003/08/31 Country Information on DRR

Period 2003/08/31
Country or District India
Event Type Flash Flood
Outline Twenty people are feared to have drowned in a flash flood in northern India.
Summary
Human Impact Physical Impact Others
Reuters Alertnet 2003/09/11
Dead: 206 people
(in six weeks of flooding)
BBC news 2003/09/03
Death: 17 people
affected :three million people

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Reuters Alertnet 2003/09/11
Fresh flooding in eastern India kills 15, toll 206

Reuters Alertnet 2003/09/10
Floods threaten east Indian city, toll up to 142

BBC news 2003/09/03
Floods in the eastern Indian state of Orissa have killed another eight people, bringing the total since Sunday to 17.

CNN NEWS 2003/08/31
Deadly floods submerge Indian bus