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In the northern state of Himachal Pradesh, flash floods over the weekend brought down a bridge and swept away several hutments.

Now the government seeks their homes, temporary bamboo hutments with tin roofs.

The team walked to the nearest hutment — with no toilet, no electricity, no cellphone signal — to bunk down for the evening.

Even married couples were not allowed to live together in the hutment camps.

On the other side of the river, the steep mud banks changed abruptly into low mud walls of shanty hutments.