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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Environment
Srishti Jaswal

‘Climate change killed my family’: Unusual monsoon hammers India’s Himachal

Flashfloods in the Prashar Valley wreaked havoc after unusually intense rains from July to August [Srishti Jaswal/Al Jazeera]

Kaleshdhar, India – Om Prakash, 42, was found alive in the debris of a collapsed house after a landslide triggered by relentless rain in this remote village of Himachal Pradesh.

Prakash’s family, belonging to an Indigenous farming community, had gathered on August 14 to pay homage to the rain gods, a tradition during the monsoon months.

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