Death toll in flooding passes 225
From Times Wire Reports
Helicopters dropped food to almost 2 million marooned Indian villagers as the death toll from unusually heavy monsoon rains and floods in South Asia rose to more than 225.
The food drops to 2,200 villages cut off by flooding aimed to help desperate residents in the worst-hit eastern parts of India’s Uttar Pradesh state. Umesh Sinha, the state relief commissioner, said nearly 280,000 acres of rice paddies had been destroyed.
About 19 million have been driven from their homes in India and neighboring Bangladesh.
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