BARABANKI, India - Torrential overnight rains compounded the misery of 2 million marooned Indian villagers, as the death toll from floods across South Asia rose to at least 240, officials said Sunday.
Helicopters dropped food and the army helped civil authorities carry out rescue operations. They also brought aid to hundreds of thousands of people who had escaped to high ground near national highways and railway tracks in Indias Uttar Pradesh and Bihar states last week.
At least 240 people have been killed in India and neighbouring Bangladesh, with some 19 million driven from their homes in recent days. The South Asian monsoon season runs from June to September as the rains work their way across the subcontinent, a deluge that scatters floods and landslides across the region and kills hundreds of people every year.

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