Floods: 4.5 mln. homeless in India


	Floods: 4.5 mln. homeless in India

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8-9-2006 4:41 PM

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Indian floods worsen, 4.5 mln people homeless 
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AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - 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, officials
said.
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060809/sc_nm/weather_india_dc_3"><P>India's annual monsoon rains -- vital for the country's
agriculture-driven economy -- have triggered floods across at
least five states since the weekend, killing at least 311
people, submerging villages and causing widespread damage to
crops.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060809/sc_nm/weather_india_dc_3"><P>Most deaths were reported from the western state of
Maharashtra, where 163 people have been killed in four days of
incessant rains, 86 of them in the past 48 hours, officials
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