A submerged idol of Hindu Lord Shiva stands in the flooded River Ganges in Rishikesh, in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, on June 18, 2013. Torrential monsoon rains have cause havoc in northern India leading to flash floods, cloudbursts and landslides as the death toll continues to climb and more than 1,000 pilgrims bound for Himalayan shrines remain stranded. (AP Photo) ![]()
A car sits abandoned in rubble from a landslide in Tehri, Uttarakhand, on June 19, 2013. A joint army and air force operation evacuated nearly 12,000 Hindu pilgrims stranded in a mountainous area by torrential monsoon rains and landslides in northern India, but nearly 63,000 people remain cut off, a senior official said Wednesday. (AP Photo) #![]()
Journalists stand on a nearly empty bridge after traffic was stopped due to a perilously high water level which nearly touched the bridge on the Yamuna River, in New Delhi, India, on June 19, 2013. Heavy rainfall in northern India has caused water to be released from barrages upstream flooding the banks of the Yamuna along New Delhi. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das) #![]()
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A boy sits on a ladder next to his flooded house with the water level of the Yamuna River rising after heavy monsoon rains in New Delhi, on June 19, 2013. (Reuters/Anindito Mukherjee) #![]()
Buses and trucks sit submerged in the rising waters of the Yamuna River in New Delhi, on June 19, 2013. (AP Photo/Tsering Topgyal) #http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/06/early-monsoon-rains-flood-northern-india/100537/
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