India says nearly 6,000 missing a month after devastating floods

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India says nearly 6,000 missing a month after devastating floods

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/india-says-nearly-6-000-missing-month-devastating-113755724.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/4rcEDRTSJw5iyCg0pPKWYg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-15T113755Z_1_CBRE96E0WBF00_RTROPTP_2_INDIA-FLOODS.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Posters of missing people, caused by the flash floods and landslides, are placed on a gate as an Indian Air Force helicopter lands at a base in Dehradun" align="left" title="Posters of missing people, caused by the flash floods and landslides, are placed on a gate as an Indian Air Force helicopter lands at a base in Dehradun" border="0" /></a>NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India officially declared on Monday that nearly 6,000 people were missing a month after flash floods ravaged large parts of its northern state of Uttarakhand, but stopped short of saying they were presumed dead. The figure of 5,748, based on tallies of missing persons from around the country, was the first official estimate following weeks in which the numbers of dead and missing fluctuated wildly from a few hundred to several thousand. ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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