India’s southern state of Kerala is suffering its worst monsoon flooding in a century, with more than one million people displaced, and more than 400 reported deaths in the past two weeks. Aid agencies and government groups have set up more than 4,000 relief camps, while rescue personnel are making their way to submerged villages in helicopters and boats, bringing supplies, and evacuating those they can find. Weeks of heavy rainfall have caused dams to open their floodgates, triggered landslides in the mountains, and swamped the coastal regions of Kerala. Only in recent days have floodwaters begun to recede, allowing more access for aid workers and rescuers.
Devastating Monsoon Floods in Kerala, India
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In this picture taken on August 9, 2018, water gushes out of Idamalayar Dam. Shutters of the dam were opened when the storage level of the reservoir became dangerously high. #
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Indian Army personnel and Kerala state police work to build a temporary bridge over a rocky river following heavy flooding in Nelliyampathy in the Palakkad district of Kerala, on August 20, 2018. #
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Rescue personnel carry animals and elderly people to safety from floodwaters during a rescue operation at Mala Village in Kerala's Thrissur district, on August 19, 2018. #
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A bicycle is hung from a tree branch to avoid being washed away in floodwaters as a man rows with his dog in a country boat at Kuttanad in Alappuzha on August 20, 2018. #
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A 61-year-old kidney-ailment patient, Raveendran, who needs dialysis twice a week, is rescued before taken to a hospital from a flooded area in Chengannur on August 19, 2018. #
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Residents of Pandanad sit in a bus stand surrounded by floodwaters from the overflowing Pampa river while a raft passes near them in Kerala's Alappuzha district on August 21, 2018. #
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