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Reuters: Indian military helicopters Monday plucked about 150 foreign tourists to safety in the Himalayan region of Ladakh where flash floods have killed 156 people. At least 300 people remained missing from last week's floods triggered by heavy rains that destroyed homes, uprooted telephone towers and deposited boulders and mud up to 15 feet high on highways, cutting road links with the rest of India. The remote region borders Pakistan, beset by the worst floods in 80 years which have ......
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Floods strand 300 foreigners in India’s Ladakh
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 9th, 2010
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