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| Eight dead in India rains, 25,000 people evacuated | | | NEW DELHI - At least eight people died in India during heavy monsoon rains at the weekend
and more than 25,000 were evacuated in the western state of Gujarat, officials said.
Six members of one family died on Sunday in the western desert state of Rajasthan when their car was
swept away, police superintendent Amrit Kalash told the Press Trust of India news agency.
Also in Rajasthan one man drowned and a woman was electrocuted by a downed power line on
Sunday.
In neighbouring Gujarat, authorities moved more than 25,000 people from low-lying areas to safer
places, as an alert was sounded in villages on the banks of Narmada River.
Another river in the state, the Poorna, was flowing near the flood danger mark, officials said.
The monsoon rains sweep India from June to September, bringing misery to millions of people displaced
annually by flooding, but are also crucial for the country's farm-dependent economy. Officials have
linked 346 deaths to monsoon rains this year.
Most deaths this year have been caused by lightning, landslides and house collapses during heavy
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