Sigh of relief for over one million people as water level recedes in flood-hit Kerala, torrential rains batter Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan

Rainfall has abated in the flood-ravaged Kerala over the past two days giving a sigh of relief of more than a million people battling hunger, epidemics in the wake of the state's worst deluge in almost a century. More than 300 people lost their lives in the two phases of the dreadful disaster, forcing the central government to declare the situation in the state as a 'severe calamity'. More than 10 lakh people are staying in 3274 relief camps across the state. 

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