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Last Updated: Friday, 18 July, 2003, 12:16 GMT 13:16 UK
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In Pictures: Monsoon season
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Police sift wreckage in remote Himachal Pradesh state after flash floods killed scores
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Pilgrims in Jammu wait for news after bad weather caused officials to suspend pilgrimages to Kashmir's Amarnath shrine
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A villager in the region west of Guwahati in Assam surveys the devastation that flooding has wreaked
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The worst flooding in 50 years has affected more than four million people in Assam
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In Bangladesh, the monsoons have inundated 1.7m hectares of crop land, sparking fears of a rice shortage
Monsoon in Ahmedabad, Gujarat
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The monsoons are reported to have claimed the lives of nearly 500 people in the subcontinent since June
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Hindus take water from the River Ganges to the Hindu Vishwanath temple in Varanasi to offer thanks for the monsoon rains
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A flooded street in Calcutta. The heaviest monsoon rains are finally moving west, providing some relief to the north-east
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Flooding in Lahore: heavy rains have also lashed southern Pakistan, with 33 people reported killed in the past two days


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