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Flooding in Kashmir Strands 400,000

More than a million people have been cut off from clean water and thousands of buildings are submerged in the flood waters and left uninhabitable.
Image: Cars sit submerged on a road in the flooded Bemina area in Srinagar
Cars sit submerged on a road in the flooded Bemina area on Sept. 15 in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian administered Kashmir, India. Yawar Nazir / Getty Images

Above, cars sit submerged on a road in the flooded Bemina area on Monday in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian-administered Kashmir. More than a million people have been cut off from clean water and thousands of buildings, including hospitals, are submerged in the flood waters and left uninhabitable. Rescue workers struggled to reach marooned flood victims in Kashmir as the catastrophic floodwaters receded, revealing horrific devastation in the strife-torn Kashmir and neighboring Pakistan. The floods in the Himalayan region of Kashmir are believed to be the worst in decades and have left approximately 400,000 people stranded and over 200 dead.

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