(Photo: AP Images / Mahesh Kumar A.)
Flood victims stand in a queue to receive food distributed at a relief center in Vijayawada, about 280 kilometers (175 miles) from Hyderabad, India, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009. Thousands among the legions of southern Indians displaced by a week of flooding trickled back to their homes and farms to survey the damage left by a natural disaster that killed at least 269 people, officials said Wednesday.

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