eavy rains continued to lash many states of northern India on Friday throwing life out of gear even as flood-related deaths mounted to 107 in Uttar Pradesh, where army was called out in two districts to evacuate marooned people to safer places.
About 19 million people, according to latest reports, have been affected by rising flood waters in Assam, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, and across the border in Bangladesh as rain continued incessantly.
Rivers overflowed their banks and washed away roads, homes and entire villages. The army stepped in to evacuate people in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
Dengue warnings were issued. District officials are worried about the possible onset of diarrhoea. Desperate people, short of food and shelter, vented their ire at local authorities for lack of disaster relief. In Muzaffarpur, Bihar, a truck carrying bread was attacked.
In Bihar alone seven million people have fled their homes; some 3,000 villages are affected.
Nearly 1,000 people have died in India since the start of the rainy season -- from house collapses, drowning, snake bites. Apparently monkeys, wild with hunger have also been a source of injury.
In Assam five million people have been displaced from their homes.
Images: Left: A villager transports his family to safety on a boat through floodwaters in Assam. Right: A Bangladeshi woman and child wade through floodwaters in Sirajgonj district, some 105 kms north-west of Dhaka, on Thursday.
Photographs: Biju Boro and T Azad/AFP/Getty Images
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