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1 DEVASTATING FLOODS IN ASSAM STATE, INDIA June 28, 2012
More lectures at Disasters Supercourse - Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, University of North Carolina, USA

2 The Brahmaputra River overflowed during monsoon rains over the past week, flooding more than 2,000 villages and destroying homes in the northeast of the country

3 FLOOD: ASSAM STATE; JUNE 28, 2012

4 WILD BUFFALO GOING TO HIGHER GROUND; JUNE 28

5 STRANDED IN NAELENI VILLAGE: JUNE 28

6 SOME OF THE 500,000 EVACUEES: JUNE 29

7 ELDERLY AND YOUNG EVACUEES: JUNE 29

8 HOMELESS BULUT VILLAGE FAMILY: JUNE 30

9 PUMPING DRINKING WATER: BULUT VILLAGE; JUNE 30

10 WORST FLOODING IN RECENT HISTORY
Ninety-five dead Over 2 million homeless. Half a million evacuees are living in relief camps with disease prone conditions Damaging landslides hindered relief operations

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