18,000 flee floods
NZPA New Delhi Nearly 18,000 people have been evacuated from floodravaged regions in northern India at the week-end as the Government announced that the flood fatality toll had increased to 460.
Three million hectares of cropland had been submerged under flood waters since the annual monsoon
i began late in June, the Gov- ; ernment said. ■■ . Yamuna River overran its i banks at the week-end, inun- • dating - some villages in su- ; burban Delhi; Local author- ■ ities ordered..the evacuation of people from, the flooded
villages to temporary refugee shelters set up in other parts of the Indian capital. .
The United News of India reported that overflowing rivers in eastern parts of Uttar Pradesh; India’s most populous state, swamped more than 200 villages. Nearly 11,000 people were moved to safer places in Jaunpur County alone, much of which has been flooded by the rampaging Gomti River. ••
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