
"The floods have killed 26 people and 12 others are missing," Orissa's Disaster Management Minister Surya Narayan Patra told AFP in the state capital Bhubaneswar, painting a picture of widespread devastation.
"We have evacuated 193,000 people to relative safety," he added, warning that the death toll was likely to rise. He added that a total of 2.1 million people in the state of 40 million people had been affected in some way or another with floodwaters entering their homes or their crops submerged....
Locator map of Orissa by Jayanta Nath, Wikimedia Commons, under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license
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