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CNN News:印度喀拉拉邦世纪大洪水已致超300人死亡 灾区一片汪洋

2018-08-24来源:和谐英语

Today's coverage on cnn 10 starts with a natural disaster taking place in Southern Asia. Parts of Kerala, a state in southern India are underwater.
The rainy season brought on by the seasonal monsoons was worst this year than it usually is.
Indian officials say some parts of Kerala received more than twice the amount of rainfall that they usually do, and that's caused the worst flooding the state has seen in almost a century.
Over the past couple of weeks, the rivers that crossed Kerala swelled out unto the land nearby, ruining hundreds of thousands of homes. More than 300 people have been killed in the flooding. There are some areas where there are no visible roads, just water, and some of that is filled with sewage, with immense potential to cause infection.

Fishermen have come in by the thousands to help rescue people. They've brought their own boats, using them around the clock until they're too damage to sail anymore and they say that even some of those who need help, those whose homes have been inundated with water have been reluctant to leave either because they don't trust the would be rescuers or they're concerned that their homes would be robbed once they left them. Conditions for people in some of the shelters aren't much better.