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| Fresh rain worsens S Asia floods |
| Fresh rains in north India have flooded new areas and worsened the situation in regions already badly hit by some of the worst floods in 30 years.
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| INDIA
, 18-August-2007
5:4:32 AM |
| Relief operations are being hampered in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh and landslides suspended the pilgrimage to a key shrine in Uttarakhand state.
In Bangladesh, more than 50,000 people have fallen sick after eating stale food or drinking contaminated water.
About 28m people have been affected by floods in India, Bangladesh and Nepal.
The number of those killed varies widely from 500 to 3,000.
Landslide toll
In the worst affected Indian state of Bihar, officials say at least 300 people have died from the floods.
Rain water has destroyed crops worth millions of dollars and left hundreds of thousands homeless, they say.
Kanti Devi, a resident of Muzaffarpur, said: "The first time the flood water came in to my house it stayed for eight days. The water came back yesterday; almost 100 houses are flooded again here."
She has had to seek refuge elsewhere with her family.
"Everybody is nervous and scared. The children are frightened of snakes and leeches brought by the flood."
Children's NGO Plan says doctors report suspected malaria cases up 30-fold since the beginning of the floods.
Manish Mehta of Plan said: "If rain continues to fall, further assistance will be vital to prevent a disease epidemic, provide shelter and avert many more deaths."
In Himachal Pradesh state, where a flash flood caused by a cloudburst in Ghanvi village struck this week, two more bodies have been recovered from the debris of houses.
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