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Run to save home from the Ganga [1]

The 103-year-old school being dismantled in Murshidabad's Shekalipur. The river was only 10 metres from the building on Tuesday. A Telegraph picture

Lalgola, July 22: Lying on a cot in the afternoon, Rojefa Bewa had thought she heard claps of thunder.

"My sons had just returned from the field. I told them about it. Then we saw villagers running past our house.

Publication Date: 
23/07/2008
Telegraph (Kolkata) [2]
Tags:
Soil Erosion [3], Ganga [4], Floods [5], West Bengal [6]
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