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At least 40 people are missing in border areas of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh states in northeastern India after being swept away by flash floods, Monday, July 5, 2004. More than 35 villages are under water and about 35,000 people are homeless. Scores of elephants from the Sijusha elephant project and the Nameri game reserve were also swept away in the floods. The River Bordikai that flows into Arunachal Pradesh from Tibet—where a dam is reported to have burst—and two more rivers, the Hulengi and the Satrang, have flooded.