"Unprecedented rainfall" strands 25 million in India, Bangla

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"Unprecedented rainfall" strands 25 million in India, Bangladesh - 5 Aug 07
Monsoon rain-driven floods swept across northeastern India, Bangladesh and Nepal,
leaving millions stranded.
Estimates of those left homeless varied, with Agence-France Presse reporting 25 million
people across the region were forced to flee and more than 1,400 dead.

"The rainfall is unprecedented and the extent of the damage is high,"' Manoj Srivastava,
disaster management chief for Bihar, India's second-most populous state and one of the
hardest hit, said today in a telephone interview.

It is "the worst flooding in living memory," Unicef said. "The sheer size and scale of the
flooding and the massive numbers of people affected pose an unprecedented challenge
to the delivery of desperately needed humanitarian assistance."

In Uttar Pradesh, some districts got more rainfall in a week than they usually receive
in a year.

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