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Flooding claims 121 lives

Published:Monday | July 9, 2012 | 12:00 AM
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People walk in a muddy street after flooding in the Black Sea resort of Gelendzhik, southern Russia, on Saturday, July 7. Torrential rains dropped nearly a foot of water in the Black Sea region of southern Russia overnight, unleashing intense flooding that killed over 100 people and forced many to scramble out of their beds for refuge in trees and on roofs, officials said Saturday. - AP photos
A local resident walks at a flooded house in Krimsk, about 1,200 kilometres (750 miles) south of Moscow, Russia, yesterday.
Local residents remove dirt after flooding in the Black Sea resort of Gelendzhik on Saturday, July 7.
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GAUHATI (AP):

The death toll has risen to 121 as damage mounts from monsoon floods that devastated the northeastern Indian state of Assam.

Villagers are still finding bodies in receding waters. On Sunday, the death toll stood at 121, including 16 buried in mudslides.

About half of the 2.2 million people who were displaced remain in makeshift shelters or with relatives or friends. The central government has offered $90 million in aid to the agricultural state, where at least 254,000 hectares (627,600 acres) of rice fields and other crops have been affected.

The floods also killed 559 animals in the Kaziranga game reserve, including more than 400 hog deer and 14 of its 2,300 endangered one-horned rhinos. State environment minister Rokybul Hussain called it a catastrophe.