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Flood in Khanakul, India

A newly married couple floats through a flooded road in Khanakul, about 126 miles (200 kilometers) west of Kolkata (Calcutta), on July 7, 2007.

Some 30 million people have been affected by floods in India in 200710 million alone in the eastern state of Bihar. The United Nations on August 7 called the flood situation in South Asia the worst in living memory.

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