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JAIPUR, India (Reuters) - Monsoon rains and flooding have killed at least 130 people in India's western state of Rajasthan, officials said on Monday, with huge swathes of desert underwater.
Tens of thousands of people have been displaced in Barmer, a sprawling district that borders Pakistan and is known for its sand dunes and widely spread villages. Dozens of people are missing.
"The desert looks like a sea. There is no place where one can walk," Captain Saurabh Modi, an army officer who is involved in relief operations in Barmer, told Reuters by telephone.
Hundreds of people marooned on sand dunes, surrounded by over 15 feet of water, were being rescued by military helicopters and motorized navy dinghies.
Most of the deaths in Rajasthan in the week-long flooding were caused by drowning and house collapses.