Deadly floods have left thousands of people in India’s Punjab state stranded in rescue camps across a thousand villages, according to government officials.
Over 250,000 people were impacted by flooding in the northwest state last month, which the state’s chief minister referred to as “one of the worst flood disasters in decades” and claimed at least 29 lives.
More than 940 square kilometers (360 square miles) of farmland are flooded, causing “devastating crop losses” in the area that is frequently referred to as India’s breadbasket, Punjab’s Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann wrote in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Modi promised him the “full support” of the federal government on Monday.
