20 schools are brought to standstill when waters are raging, and a man died while an ambulance waited for him on the far bank

No bridges over these troubled waters

The woman in the video frame grab inches her way across a tumultuous and potentially deadly river, with her bag and jacket slung over her body,  on a makeshift “bridge” — old pipes and a rope handrail — built by the villagers...

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