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

PHOTOS: Deadly Floods Hit South Asia; Displace Millions
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A man receives cough syrup from a doctor at a makeshift relief camp at a school in Janakinagar, 231 miles (370 kilometers) northeast of Patna, India, on September 3, 2008.

Hundreds of thousands of people are homeless after monsoon rains swelled Nepal's Kosi River, which breached its dam.

Flood survivors will likely remain at camps such as this one for several more months until the waters covering their villages subside.
—Photograph by Manish Swarup/AP
 
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