Flood Victims Fight for Food Monday August 6, 2007 8:31 PM By GAVIN RABINOWITZ Associated Press Writer NEW DELHI (AP) - Starving flood victims fought each other for scarce food supplies Monday as the Indian air force stepped up airlifts of provisions to some 2 million stranded people. Water receded across northern India and Bangladesh after three days without significant rainfall, but the death toll from the recent flooding still surged past 360, including at least 15 people who died when heavy currents sank their boat on the flood-swollen Ganges River. About 30 more people were missing. Air force helicopters swept low over the flooded plains of northern India for the third day, dropping more than 4,300 food packages, said Manoj Shrivastav, the Bihar state disaster management secretary. Residents fought each other for the dropped supplies while others looted government supply trucks, said Upendera Sharma, a local government official. Hundreds of angry villagers in Bihar state's Darbhanga district briefly kidnapped a senior official and the local police chief over the weekend, releasing them after receiving promises that an aid distribution center would be set up there, he said. Others complained that little was being done to help them as they tried to return to their ruined homes. Full Story