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September 15, 2014 |
Deadly flooding in India and Pakistan
Hundreds of people have died from the worst flooding in years in India and Pakistan. Tens of thousands of people are left homeless, with some still stranded in submerged homes. Most people in Kashmir's largest city Srinagar were affected by this disaster. Risk of disease is now a major concern due the stagnant water that still fills the area as emergency workers continue the relief efforts. --Leanne Burden Seidel (33 photos total)

Kashmiri residents struggle to withstand sudden and strong water currents while wading through floodwaters in their efforts to move to safer places in Srinagar, India on Sept. 4. The flooding began earlier this month in Kashmir, where it has caused landslides and submerged much of the main city of Srinagar, on the Indian-administered side. (Dar Yasin/Associated Press)

An Indian resident sits outside her destroyed home following flash-floods in Jammu on Sept. 8. Desperate residents were huddled on rooftops September 8 as they tried to escape flood waters which have already claimed more than 350 lives in India and Pakistan and left tens of thousands homeless.(AFP/Getty Images) #

Kashmiri people hold a man as he falls from a tractor evacuating flood victims to higher grounds, as they move through a flooded street in Srinagar Sept. 9. The prime ministers of India and Pakistan have offered to help each other in efforts to alleviate flood havoc in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, lowering tension between the rival nations after weeks of army clashes and heated rhetoric. (Adnan Abidi/Reuters) #

Rescue boats pass through a flooded area in Srinagar Sept. 11. Authorities in Kashmir collected the bodies of women and children floating in the streets on Thursday as anger mounted over what many survivors said was a bungled operation to help those caught in the region's worst flooding in 50 years. (Adnan Abidi/Reuters) #

An Indian Kashmiri man is assisted across flood waters with the use of a rope in Srinagar on Sept. 9. Bewildered families, nursing children and clutching meagre belongings, packed into makeshift relief centers after fleeing floods in India and Pakistan that have now claimed more than 400 lives. (PUNIT PARANJPE/AFP/Getty Images) #

Tourists wait to be evacuated by Indian Air Force helicopters during rescue and relief operations following flooding in Srinagar on Sept. 10. Anger mounted September 10 over the slow pace of rescue operations in Indian Kashmir as authorities said they were "overwhelmed" by the scale of deadly flooding that has left hundreds of thousands of people stranded. (TAUSEEF MUSTAFA/AFP/Getty Images) #

A flood-affected Kashmiri boy stands in the women's line as they wait to be seen by Indian armed forces doctors at a temporary medical camp established underneath a flyover in Srinagar on Sept. 12. The main city in Indian Kashmir has "drowned completely" under floodwaters, a senior official said, with the deadly inundation now affecting about two million people in neighboring Pakistan and threatening its all-important cotton industry. (PUNIT PARANJPE/AFP/Getty Images) #

Kashmiri flood affected people wait for relief goods in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 10 Sept. 10. An estimated 600,000 people were still stranded in India's Jammu and Kashmir state and some 215 people have died since last week in monsoon-driven floods in the state that submerged hundreds of villages, washed away bridges and roads and snapped power and communication links, a news reports said. (FAROOQ KHAN/EPA) #

Rescue workers mark the road boundaries in flooded areas in Jhang, Punjab province, Pakistan, Sept. 11. Flooding in Pakistan might affect more than 5 million people, an official said Sept 11.as the government ordered an initial assessment of losses and international help started flowing in. (LYAS SHEIKH/EPA) #

A Kashmiri resident looks inside a house damaged by flooding at Chak village, south of Srinagar, on Sept. 15. Fresh rain hampered rescue operations in Indian Kashmir September 14 a week after deadly floods swamped the Himalayan region, with medics and survivors describing nightmarish conditions in the devastated city of Srinagar. (TAUSEEF MUSTAFA/AFP/Getty Images) #