At least six Indian children drowned in a reservoir as they traveled home from school and mudslides killed 11 workers sleeping near a shrine as the death toll from the monsoon season across South Asia rose to at least 1,911, officials said Friday. The 11 workers were buried in mud as they slept in a tin shed by the Vaishno Devi shrine in Dhaba Moth, Jammu-Kashmir state, but three of their co-workers were pulled alive from the debris, police Superintendent M.L. Mehra said. In the western state of Gujarat, six children drowned and two others were missing after the tractor they were riding home on skidded and plunged into a reservoir in Junagarh, a police officer said. The driver swam to safety. Heavy downpours in the past five days have inundated villages and claimed dozens of lives in northern and western India, where farmers had prayed for rain only a week earlier amid a prolonged dry spell. Monsoon rains have drenched India's remote northeast and the eastern state of Bihar since June. At least 1,119 people have died in India, 663 in Bangladesh, 124 in Nepal and five in Pakistan from the monsoon since June, mostly from drowning, mudslides and waterborne diseases. Last year's monsoon season ended in October after killing 1,500 people in the region. --More 1414 Local Time 1114 GMT
