[DIPECHO Network] Flood news_28 Flood Evacuees Die in India Storm

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>Flood Evacuees Die in India Storm
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>Source: BBC News
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>At least 28 people died when an overcrowded boat carrying flood evacuees 
>and aid workers capsized in northern India, officials have said.
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>At least 85 panicked villagers in Uttar Pradesh state boarded the boat, 
>which only had a capacity of 30.
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>Monsoon rains and floods have hit 10 million people in the Indian states 
>of Bihar, West Bengal and Assam.
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>In Nepal, floods have killed more than 82 people in the past two weeks, 
>while at least 38 have died in Bangladesh.
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>The overcrowded boat capsized on the rain-swollen Rohni river near 
>Maharajganj village, 300km (185 miles) south-east of the Uttar Pradesh 
>capital, Lucknow.
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>'Worldwide emergency'
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>Most of the passengers were women and children, officials said. Police are 
>searching for survivors.
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>"The boat apparently was very old and gave way under the pressure of so 
>many people on board, and the strong river current," senior police officer 
>Prashant Kumar told the Reuters news agency.
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>The crisis came as research from the charity Save the Children found that 
>nearly 138 million people worldwide had been affected by floods in recent 
>weeks.
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>More than 1,000 people around the world have died and at least half a 
>million homes have been damaged or destroyed because of the torrential 
>rains, said Save the Children.
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>The charity's director of emergencies, Gareth Owen, said: "This is an 
>emergency on a worldwide scale and it deserves a global reaction, which is 
>badly lacking at the moment from governments and donors."
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>More than 17 million have been affected in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and 
>Nepal.
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>But the worst affected country is China, where 119 million people have 
>been hit by floods in the last month.
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