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Mon 09 Sep 2008Three million displaced by south India floods
The Indian army and navy stepped up efforts today to rescue hundreds of thousands of people marooned by floods, while rising river levels threatened neighbouring Bangladesh.
In India's impoverished eastern state of Bihar, villagers have been living on rooftops for days, while others are eating plants and leaves after exhausting food stocks.
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