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Heavy rains pound India; 163 killed over 4 days
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 24 - 09 - 2008

Heavy rains continued to lash northern and eastern India with 44 people reported killed over the past 24 hours as authorities rushed Tuesday to rescue hundreds of thousands trapped in their homes.
The latest reported deaths brought the toll of those killed by monsoon flooding to 163 over the last four days.
Most of the dead were from India's most populous northern state of Uttar Pradesh, where 32 people were killed by drowning, house collapses and electrocution since Monday, as most rivers in the state spilled their banks, state relief commissioner G.K. Tandon said Tuesday.
Another 70 people were killed over the weekend in the state and floods forced 200,000 people to flee their homes, Tandon said. The state government set up more than 2,000 relief camps across Uttar Pradesh to house the flood survivors.
In eastern Orissa state, the death toll over the last four days from heavy rains and flooding rose to 29 Tuesday morning, said chief secretary Ajit Kumar Tripathi. On Monday 17 people were reported to have died.
Authorities evacuated nearly 285,000 people since Friday and put them in 261 state-run relief camps, Tripathi told The Associated Press. Officials were trying to reach an addition 200,000 stranded villagers.
More rain is expected over the next few days and the state government has called in help from the Indian navy, Tripathi said.
Three Indian air force helicopters were dropping food packages to stranded villagers and 1,300 motor and row boats were rescuing people in the worst hit districts.
Another 32 people died in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh over the weekend, most buried by mudslides triggered by heavy rains, news reports said.


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