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India:Flash Flood:2003/07/16

Duration	2003/07/16	Heavy rains are hampering efforts to rescue survivors after flash floods killed at least 19 people at a construction site in India's northern state of Himachal Pradesh.
Country or District	India
Name	Flash Flood

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Report/Articles Reuters AlertNet 2003/07/17 South Asia's annual monsoon, which began in June. CNN news 2003/07/16 At least 100 people were killed in northern India when a flash flood swept through a make-shift tent site where laborers were sleeping, local police say. BBC news 2003/07/17 Rains hamper Indian flood rescue

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Pictures BBC news 2003/07/18 In Pictures: Monsoon season