More rain, diseases worsen South Asia floods
By Biswajyoti Das
GUWAHATI, India, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Heavy rain triggered by storms caused fresh flooding in India and Bangladesh on Sunday, as authorities battled bad weather to supply food and medicines to victims of some of the worst floods in South Asia in years.
Thousands of people have been marooned over the last two days across densely populated India's east and northeast and neighbouring Bangladesh after rivers, swollen by days of heavy monsoon rain, broke through mud embankments, swamped villages and destroyed crops.
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In the mineral-rich state of Orissa, around 5,000 people were marooned after fresh floods triggered by a coastal storm swamped villages in six districts.
Thousands were suffering from water-borne diseases in the neighbouring state of Bihar, where widespread flooding has claimed 321 lives so far.
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