High alert sounded in India's Delhi as river Yamuna breaches danger-mark

Source: Xinhua| 2019-08-22 08:41:33|Editor: Wu Qin
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A boy carries housewares by boat from his submerged house as overflowing Yamuna water flooded into the low lying slum area in North India's Delhi on Aug. 21, 2019. A high alert has been sounded in the Indian capital even as the river passing through the city - Yamuna has breached the danger-mark, 205.3 meters-mark, on Monday night after excess water was released from rains-hit hilly state Uttarakhand. At 6:00 a.m. local time on Tuesday, the water-level of the river was recorded at almost 206 meters, an official of Delhi Government said. (Photo by Partha Sarkar/Xinhua)

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