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India : Flood : 2001/08/26
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Duration 2001/08/26
Country
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District
India
Name Flood
Outline Nearly three million people have been displaced by the second wave of flooding this month in the eastern Indian state of Bihar.

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Personal Injury Material Damage Others
News source CNNnews 2001/09/08
displaced:2.8 million people
death :at least 39
crops destroyed:55,000 hectares (136,000 acres)
damaged estimated:1.24 billion rupees ($26 million)
highways and railways track and all communication with has been completely sanpped

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