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/ 30 October 2008
Eleven bomb blasts ripped through the main city of India’s troubled north-eastern Assam state and three other towns on Thursday, killing at least 65.
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/ 2 September 2008
Rains and rising floodwaters forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes in north-eastern India and sent elephants and rhinos fleeing.
Cyclone damage to the Irrawaddy Delta, Burma’s rice bowl, has caused a surge in looting in its restive border areas by poorly paid troops worried about food shortages, residents and human rights groups say. In the north-west town of Kalaymo, residents said soldiers had stepped up seizures of rice, fish and firewood.
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/ 11 September 2007
Soldiers in motor boats rescued thousands of marooned people and helicopters air-dropped food as the number of people left homeless after some of the worst flooding in years in India’s north-east rose to 3,5-million. About 10-million people out of the 27-million population of Assam state have been affected by flooding after rains in the past few days.
Packed hospitals in eastern India struggled to cope with people suffering waterborne diseases on Saturday and marooned villagers clashed with police as some of the worst floods in living memory ravaged South Asia. More than 250 people have died over the past 11 days after torrential monsoon rains that caused rivers to burst their banks.
Separatist rebels in India’s restive north-eastern state of Assam killed 43 people, mostly labourers and traders, in a series of coordinated overnight attacks, police said on Saturday. Police said heavily armed United Liberation Front of Asom guerrillas gunned down at least 12 people in one remote village in Tinsukia.