India: Flood: 2006/08/04

Period	2006/08/04
Country or District	India
Event Type	Flood
Outline	Monsoon rains and floods have killed 42 people in southern and eastern India and displaced tens of thousands of others, officials said on Friday

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Reuters AlertNet 2006/08/11
More than 350 people have been killed and around 4.5 million people forced to leave their homes across at least five Indian states since the weekend after rivers overflowed and authorities were forced to release water from brimming dams. Heavy flooding in the western Indian city of Surat, the country\\\'s gem-cutting and polishing hub, has badly hit the diamond industry with traders predicting it may take weeks to return to normal.

Reueters News 2006/08/09
Swollen rivers swamped thousands of villages and towns across India\'s south and west on Wednesday, forcing 4.5 million from their homes as rescuers struggled to bring them food and drinking water

CNN.com 2006/08/08
Floods maroon hundreds of thousands. Nearly 300 dead in parts of India and Pakistan; villages submerged.

Reueters News 2006/08/06
In southern Andhra Pradesh the death toll from three days of monsoon storms rose to 80, officials said, as 18 people drowned, were electrocuted or killed as houses collapsed overnight.

Reueters News 2006/08/04
Forty deaths have been reported from the southern state of Andhra Pradesh since Wednesday while two people were killed in neighbouring Orissa on Friday in flash floods.

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Earth Observatry of NASA 2006/08/19
On August 19, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured the top image of floods in the southeastern state of Andhra Pradesh.

Reueters News 2006/08/24
Children look out of a house at the rising water level of the river Ganges in the northern Indian city of Allahabad August 23, 2006. Floods have killed nearly 400 people in western and southern India in recent weeks, and displaced up to four million people