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India: Landslide: 2004/08/07 Country Information on DRR

Period 2004/08/07
Country or District India
Event Type Landslide
Outline Mudslide, drowning kill at least 17 in India. The death toll from the monsoon season across South Asia rose to at least 1,931, officials said Friday.
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Human Impact Physical Impact Others

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ABC News 2004/08/07
A flood-swollen river was overflowing a major Indian dam, threatening villages as 41 more deaths were reported.Twenty-nine people died during the past 24 hours in the badly affected Bharuch district in India's western Gujarat state.

CNN News 2004/08/07
At least six Indian children drowned when a tractor carrying them home from school in heavy rain slid into a reservoir and a mudslide smothered 11 sleeping workers.