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The holy town of Varanasi, India, was flooded by monsoon rains. Heavy monsoon rains over the past few weeks led to flooding as the mighty Ganges River overflowed its banks, submerging large parts of the Hindu holy town of Varanasi. Thousands of devotees were kept away by floodwaters, which also swamped nearby Allabahad. More than 200,000 people in Uttar Pradesh state have been evacuated and are living in relief camps after floodwaters entered homes in some 800 villages across large swaths of the state, the Associated Press reports. Rainfall is common during India's ‘monsoon season’ from June through September, but rainfall this season has been particularly heavy after two years of drought across the northeastern states of India,” said weather.com meteorologist Tom Moore. “This has allowed
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