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Saturday, August 7, 2010

Cloudbursts ravage Leh: 113 dead, 500 missing

Wrecked buses sit amid the rubble in an area affected by flash floods in Leh, in Indian-controlled Kashmir's normally arid, mountainous region of Ladakh, Friday, Aug. 6, 2010.
read moreThe Times of India
NEW DELHI: Amid the mounting death and debris of Choglamsar village -- located 5 km from Leh and a bustling settlement of Ladakhis and Tibetan refugees -- that has borne the major burnt in the massive mudslide sparked by Friday's cloudburst, comes stories of miraculous escapes bordering on divine intervention. According to sources in Leh that ToI...

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