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Relatives of missing in India floods maintain hope

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Relatives of those missing in Indian floods maintain hope of survival
Biswajeet Banerjee, The Associated Press
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LUCKNOW, India - A day after the government said it would treat more than 5,700 people missing in floods in northern India last month as presumed dead, relatives said Wednesday they still held out hope that their loved ones had survived.

The provisional death toll — officials said some of the missing still could turn up alive — would make the Uttarakhand floods the worst natural disaster in India since more than 10,000 people were killed here in the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004.

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