NEW DELHI, June 21 (Xinhua) -- At least 207 people have been killed in floods in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand since Sunday, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said Friday.
"We have evacuated more than 34,000 people, some 49,000 to 50, 000 people are still stranded there. Efforts are being made to rescue stranded people in Uttarakhand," the Home Minister told the media in state capital Dehradun, after a meeting with disaster management officials.
He said that the death toll could rise further.
Floods and landslides, triggered by heavy rainfall, hit northern India Sunday, with Uttarakhand being the worst affected.
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