Authorities say many didn't want to leave their homes, staying perched on their roofs for days 25,000 people were evacuated, and most of them are now living in hastily assembled makeshift shelters along roads like this one. The Indian army and the national disaster response force used boats to pull people to safety. The incessant rainfall led to the city's Yamuna River to breach its banks when it surged past what authorities called the danger mark. This month, Delhi received 110 percent more rainfall than it usually does, shattering a 45-year record. It's the worst flooding that Delhi has seen in more than five decades, and experts are blaming climate change. For the last two weeks, much of India's capital city has been waterlogged and its low-lying areas completely inundated. Now you can barely see the homes and the farms that stood here. Now, just last week, all that you see behind me was a thriving urban slum home to about 5,000 people.
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