PHOTOS: River Changes Course; Deadly Floods Hit S. Asia

PHOTOS: Deadly Floods Hit South Asia; Displace Millions
PHOTOS: Deadly Floods Hit South Asia; Displace Millions
PHOTOS: Deadly Floods Hit South Asia; Displace Millions
PHOTOS: Deadly Floods Hit South Asia; Displace Millions
PHOTOS: Deadly Floods Hit South Asia; Displace Millions
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Women and children rescued from recent disastrous floods are fed at a relief camp in the Purnia district of India's Bihar state in this September 3, 2008, photograph.

Indian officials say the flood, caused by a burst dam in Nepal, is the worst to strike the country in 50 years.

More than half a million people have been evacuated, but hundreds of thousands more await rescue.
—Photograph by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters
 

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