Latest pictures from flood affected areas
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(27 Jul 2004)
West Bengal
1. Various of aerials of flooded areas
2. Various of pilots in cockpit
3. Shadow of helicopter seen in floodwaters
Assam
4. Various of aerials of flooded areas
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Air Commodore R.S.Das, Indian Air Force:
"We have dropped about 300 tonnes of relief material, that's food, etc. We've taken about... airlifted about 10 tonnes of essential medicines to Silchar which was an emergency measure and we have airlifted or shifted marooned people as well as airlifted from one place to another almost 4,000 people."
6. Various of aerials of marooned villages
7. Air Force officer scanning from helicopter
8. Various of marooned villages
9. Pilots
10. Various of aerials of submerged houses
11. Various of helicopter landing at Guwahati airbase
STORYLINE :
Authorities have recovered more than 100 decomposed bodies as overflowing rivers started receding in North-eastern India, raising the death toll across the country to 686 since June.
A total of 136 people have been killed in Assam state in the northeast since monsoon rains began in June.
Thousands of villages have been submerged and (m) millions rendered homeless by overflowing rivers.
Government relief workers and Indian Air Force are distributing food, medicines and clothes to people stranded in their homes or sheltering on mud embankments and raised highways.
The worst-hit districts remain cut off from the rest of the country, with roads and rail tracks submerged, officials said.
While India's northeast and eastern parts have been devastated by monsoon floods, the central and northern parts are facing drought because of more than 50 percent shortfall in rain, the federal government said.
India's monsoon season begins in June and ends in September.
Across the whole of South Asia, the death toll stands at 1,078 for this season.
In Bangladesh 285 have been killed, 102 in Nepal and 5 in Pakistan.
Last year, 1,500 people died across South Asia during the mid-June to mid-October monsoon.
Many deaths have been due to drowning, lightning, waterborne diseases and electrocution from snapped wires.
Water levels have been falling in some regions, but authorities are girding for new outbreaks of waterborne diseases.
In India's Bihar state, army soldiers were dropping food packages and drinking water in the worst-hit districts, some of which remained cut off from the rest of the country, with roads and rail tracks submerged, officials said.
One civilian was killed when an Indian air force helicopter dropping food and evacuating people crashed in Begusarai district, 45 kilometres (30 miles) south of Patna, the state capital, said Gautam Goswami, a relief officer.
Two other civilians on board received minor injures in the accident, Gosawami said.
The cause of the crash was not immediately known.
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