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GLIDE Record
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Event:
FL Flood
Number:
2007-000096
Country:
IND India
Location:
West Bengal, Kolkata
Date (YMD):
2007-7-6
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Information Source:
Reuters AlertNet 2007/07/06 "Rains maroon thousands in eastern India"
Comments:
Flooded water triggered by heavy rains has insistently continued to suffer people in India, especially in the state of West Bengal. Several thousands of people remained in harsh condition where people cannot get clean drinking water and even sewage seeped into their lives. Kolkata, the capital city of the state with over 8 million people, also have sunk in knee-deep water. Although health workers traveled in boats to distribute medicine to the affected, civic authorities have been completely overwhelmed with relief works. The long lasting heavy rain has claimed approximately 700 lives in the past two weeks in the southern Asia region.
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