200 Indians Die In Flood
CALCUTTA. August 30. The widespread floods in north-east India were estimated today to have killed about 200 persons and caused damage valued at £22,500.000 to crops and property. _ _ . Some 14,000 square miles of rich cultivated land—about the size of Belgium—have been devastated and thousands of Indians fa Lower Assam are helplessly waiting to be struck by the deluge. They are fa the path of the mlghtly Brahmaputra river, whose surging flood waters are expected to reach the area to a few days. More than 1000 acres of tea plantations have been washed out by the floods to North Bengal alone, damaging a £1,000,000 standing crop to the Jalpalgura district
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27443, 1 September 1954, Page 11
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114200 Indians Die In Flood Press, Volume XC, Issue 27443, 1 September 1954, Page 11
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