NEW DELHI - The death toll due to floods, landslides and house collapses triggered by torrential monsoon rains in India rose to 367 Thursday as new areas came under flooded rivers in eastern and northern india, reports said.
The situation took a turn for the worse in the eastern state of Bihar, where 147 monsoon-related deaths were reported. The rivers in the state breached their embankments in many places, flooding vast areas.
The swollen rivers in the state are also menacing parts of neighbouring Uttar Pradesh. A Press Trust of India report said 4 million people in 1,500 villages have been affected by floods in Bihar.
Landslides caused by incessant rains blocked traffic in the Himalayan areas of Uttar Pradesh, paralyzing normal life. Major rivers were in spate elsewhere in the state, where eight people have been killed due to rains.
In the western state of Maharashtra 46 people have been killed, and 34 in neighbouring Gujrat. Eighteen deaths were reported from northeastern Tripura and 13 from Assam.
There were 18 deaths in southern Kerala and 17 in Karnataka, 16 in West Bengal, eight in southern Andhra Pradesh and five in northern Himachal Pradesh and one each in Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab.
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