Tens of thousands of people were marooned by flooding in eastern India on Saturday after three days of torrential rains that killed at least 10 people, officials said. The unseasonal rains came after the June-September monsoon, which this year triggered severe flooding in other parts of the country such as the states of Gujarat and Maharashtra in the west and Assam in the northeast. "The situation is bad in four southern districts, but we are doing everything necessary," West Bengal state Finance Minister Asim Dasgupta was quoted as saying by Reuters.
