Drownings, diseases and snakebites killed 30 more people in Bangladesh, taking the death toll from monsoon rains that have devastated parts of South Asia to 2,110 people, officials said Saturday. Authorities in India, meanwhile, continued to monitor northern Himachal Pradesh state where dozens of villages could be threatened if a lake formed by a massive landslide in China's Tibet region bursts its banks. In Bangladesh, 16 people drowned in six districts, while two children died Friday while taking a bath in the rain-swollen Buriganga River in the capital Dhaka, a fire brigade official said on condition of anonymity. Rescuers recovered another six bodies, including two women, from the Shitalakhya River in the Narayanganj district neighboring Dhaka where a trawler had capsized two days ago, the United News of Bangladesh reported. Four people died of snakebites while 55 other people bitten by snakes were hospitalized across the country Friday, the daily New Age said. Diarrhea killed two children Saturday in central Comilla and Laxmipur districts, said Nurul Islam, a duty officer at the Health Directorate's control room. Most of the deaths across South Asia _ including 1,215, in India, 766 in Bangladesh, 124 in Nepal and five in Pakistan _ were due to drowning, electrocution, mudslides, house collapses and waterborne diseases. More rains were predicted. "Heavy rains have been reported in many areas in last three days, and it will continue for next few days," Akram Hossain, Director of the Bangladesh Meteorological Department, told The Associated Press.
