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India Monsoon Death Toll Nears 700
Jodhpur, India (AFP) July 09, 2007 Twenty-four more people have died in rain-related accidents across India, taking the death toll to at least 684 since the onset of the monsoon last month, officials said Monday. Eight people were washed away in a monsoon-swollen river in Rajasthan, while 11 perished in rain-related deaths in the central state of Madhya Pradesh with five other deaths reported in Kashmir and West Bengal. In the normally arid state of Rajasthan, authorities have been using helicopters to pluck stranded villagers to safety. "The airforce is helping us evacuate people from villages which are now inundated," the state's relief secretary, C.K. Mathew, said in Jodhpur, adding that 60,000 people have been affected. Since the onset of the annual rainy season at the beginning of June, the western coastal state of Maharashtra has taken the brunt of the damage. The provincial chief minister, Vilasrao Deshmukh, said 385 people have died in the state, including 106 in the past week, with around 110,000 others affected by flooding. Communist-ruled West Bengal has also seen four million people hit by flooding, with around a quarter of them stuck inside their submerged homes. The monsoon rains, which sweep India from June to September, cause flooding and deaths every year in the densely populated country of a billion-plus people.
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More Misery Forecast For Flood-Hit China As July Toll Hits 127
Beijing (AFP) July 10, 2007China issued emergency flood warnings for central and eastern parts of the nation Tuesday, after torrential downpours led to the deaths of at least 127 in the past eight days. Water levels on the Huaihe river in three provinces had surpassed warning levels and were rising, affecting 14.7 million residents and leading to the collapse of 19,000 homes, the state flood headquarters said on its website. |
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