India: Flash Floods And Landslides Kill At Least 1,000 People As Thousands More Await Rescue

Soldiers tried to repair a footbridge over the Alaknanda River in mountainous Uttarakhand State during resue work on Saturday. - Flood Toll Reaches 1,000 in India as Thousands More Await Rescue (New York Times, June 22, 2013): NEW DELHI — Flash floods and landslides in northern India have killed at least 1,000 people in the [...] continue reading world news