(3 Sep 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kapurthala, India – 2 September 2025
1. Vehicles stranded on flooded road
2. People on flooded road, rescue boats in water
3. Various of rescuers and people affected by floods in boats
4. Various of flooded fields, boats
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Firozpur, India – 2 September 2025
5. Person on tractor driving through floodwaters
6. Tracking shot of inside of flooded house
7. SOUNDBITE (Punjabi) Angrez Singh, local resident:
“We need help. We need fertilizers for sowing wheat, we need diesel, our paddy is destroyed, our houses have developed cracks, we are in a bad shape. We request help from the authorities."
8. Locals and officials speaking, pan to flooded fields
9. SOUNDBITE (Punjabi) Tajinder Singh, farmer:
“The loss is such that landowners, farm owners will not be able to recover for 3, 4 years."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Gurdaspur, India – 2 September 2025
10. Person using makeshift boat to cross flooded area
11. Mid of person holding aid
12. Mid of man getting off makeshift boat
13. Mid of cattle
14. SOUNDBITE (Punjabi) Harbinder, local resident:
“Within half an hour there was water. It crossed almost 20 feet (6 meters). I barely rescued my family and cattle and nothing else. People’s houses are destroyed, everything else is destroyed."
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Amritsar, India – 2 September 2025
15. People trying to cross flooded and damaged road
16. Flooded area
17. SOUNDBITE (Punjabi) Raj Kaur, local resident:
“Crops are damaged, the water took away everything and it’s still standing."
18. Wide of relief camp tents
19. SOUNDBITE (Punjabi) Gurnam Singh, village headman:
“Every time our village is affected by floods. It’s either floods or the border dispute (with Pakistan). Our embankments are damaged."
20. Various of people in a relief camp
STORYLINE:
Torrential rains and overflowing rivers have triggered floods in many parts of northern India, disrupting lives and livelihoods with extensive damage reported to crops and livestock borders areas with Pakistan.
The swollen Sutlej, Beas and Ravi rivers have flooded large parts of Punjab following heavy rains, crippling rail and road traffic, and forcing school closures.
The deluge has claimed at least 30 lives in the state, impacting more than 350,000 people, the Press Trust of India news agency reported.
“We need help. We need fertilizers for sowing wheat, we need diesel, our paddy is destroyed, our houses have developed cracks, we are in a bad shape," said Angrez Singh, a local resident in flood-affected Firozpur.
“We request help from the authorities."
Local farmers told the AP they estimate they will not be able to recover losses from the flooding for years.
Rescue teams, backed by the army and disaster response services, have evacuated thousands of people from flood-hit homes, officials said.
Authorities have set up relief camps providing food, shelter and medical care in the flood affected villages in the state.
Officials said Punjab has received more than 70% excess rainfall in the month of August, battling its worst floods in decades.
North India has been reeling under cloudbursts and floods for the past few weeks.
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