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Floods in India leave death toll near 1,000
(China Daily)
Updated: 2005-08-01 05:34
Torrential rains lashed Mumbai yesterday, disrupting flights, hampering
rescue efforts and bringing more misery as officials said the death toll from
the heaviest downpours in the Indian city's history neared 1,000.
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Workers wear facemasks in flood-hit Mumbai
on Saturday. The death toll from western India's worst flooding in nearly
a century rose close to 1,000.
[Reuters] | Flooding and landslides had so far claimed 969 lives in Mumbai and other
parts of Maharashtra state since the rain began last Monday, with 47 more bodies
being recovered overnight, police and government officials said.
In Raigarh district, 150 kilometres south of Mumbai, at least 200 are dead or
missing.
"The death toll in Raigarh is likely to go up by another 100 or so because
more dead bodies are coming up. It (the total) may touch around 1,000, including
about 400 deaths in Bombay (Mumbai)," said Krishna Vatsa, Maharashtra relief
commissioner.
"It's raining and this will hamper the relief distribution and search
operations," added Vatsa.
In Mumbai alone, hundreds have died in the city of over
15 million since Tuesday due to landslides, drowning, electrocution in flooded
streets and even by suffocating in their cars as they waited out the rains for
many hours.
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