Floods strand thousands
NZPA New Delhi Soldiers yesterday helped to move thousands of people stranded by monsoon floods which have ravaged five states in northern and eastern India. At least 66 people have been killed and thousands of villagers made homeless, according to reports coming in from the devastated areas.
Mr J. B. Patnaik, Chief Minister of the eastern'state of Orissa; said that the floods there could become the worst on record. The region’s second city, Cuttack, was threatened after the Mahanadi River burst its banks, deluging paddy-fields and submerging nearby villages, he said. Thousands of people have been moved to higher ground and local government agencies had been put on an emergency footing to help to deal with the crisis. In northern India officials reported that the Ganges River was about two metres above its danger level, flood waters marooning villagers and cutting road links.
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Press, 1 September 1982, Page 8
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