Villagers eat raw food in flood-hit India


	Villagers eat raw food in flood-hit India

Deepti

8-27-2007 2:22 AM

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india, bihar, bengal, orissa, flood, food, villagers, disease, bangladesh

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8-27-2007 3:46 AM

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This is awful

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