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Indian villagers desperate as floods spread

2008/08/29 06:48:57 @Reuters: International News

PATRAGHAT, India (Reuters) - Villagers were eating uncooked rice and flour mixed with polluted water in an eastern Indian state, officials said on Friday, as hunger and diseases accompanied the worst-ever floods in 50 years.
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