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A young boy uses a makeshift raft - made from a banana trees - to negotiate his way through floodwaters in the Samarajan area of Upper Assam in north eastern India Monday 16th June 2003. More that 150 thousand people have been affected in the first wave of flooding in this district. Both road and railway communication have been cut off from the rest of the country for the past five days. EPA PHOTO/EPA/STR