South Asia flood toll passes 2000 mark
Article from: Agence France-Presse
August 10, 2007 02:41am
THE death toll from the worst monsoon floods to hit South Asia in decades passed 2000 today even as torrents of muddy water receded from millions of hectares of farmland and rains shifted west.
Thousands of villages remained under water and threatened by disease, while millions were still displaced, mainly in India and Bangladesh, where the severe floods also destroyed valuable crops.
The Indian government is in the process of releasing money budgeted for “calamity” relief from a disaster fund of $US800 million ($929 million), a Press Trust of India news agency report said today.
The cost of the monsoon to India so far stands at $370 million since June 1 though the figures are expected to rise.
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