Monday, September 8, 2014

Monsoon rains kill close to 300 people in India and Pakistan

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Landslides and floods caused by the heavy rains of the monsoon killed almost 300 people in northern India and Pakistan, came forward last night to the Associated Press (AP). According to the news agency, the rain fell non-stop for five days in Kashmir, resulting in the killing of 120 people in those who are the worst floods in the region in 50 years.

Hundreds of villages were completely submerged, according to the Indian authorities.

In Pakistan the havoc the rains were even higher, leading to the deaths of 160 people and destroying thousands of homes, a situation which is being treated as a "national emergency".

Rescue efforts are mobilizing helicopters and boats, trying to reach the tens of thousands of people displaced. "I'm 80 years old and I've never seen floods like these. If my neighborhood is like this, I imagine the devastation in other areas ", explained to the AP Ghulam Nabi, inhabitant of Srinagar. The rain stopped on Sunday, according to the AP.

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