Floods render 750,000 homeless in India
Rescuers are racing to get food and clean water to more than 750,000 people left homeless in four flooded Indian states, officials said Tuesday, as the death toll linked to lashing monsoon rains in the past week rose to 187.
In southern Andhra Pradesh state more than 100 people have died in the past week and 472,000 have been hit by the floods, senior administration official Priyadarshini told AFP.
More than 600 villages in three districts were under water and 296 relief camps had been set up to house those displaced by the flooding, she said in the state capital Hyderabad.
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