Quake Kills 20 in Northeastern India
An earthquake jarred a remote district of northeastern India on Monday, killing at least 20 people and setting off flash floods, authorities said. Thousands were reportedly left homeless, many of them refugees from Bangladesh.
The quake, measuring 6 on the Richter scale, destroyed river embankments, flooding many hamlets in the densely populated Cachar district, about 300 miles northeast of Calcutta, Assam state officials said. More than 100 people were injured and several thousand made homeless in the area, the United News of India news agency said.
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