India floods: More then 147 dead after torrential Rain

Flooding claims more then 140 lives in western, Southern India

Monsoon flooding in Southern and Western India has led to more then 147 deaths, 
state officials say, with hundreds of thousands of people evacuated from their homes.

In addition to the lives lost, the number of people forced from their homes stands in 

the hundreds after thousands after torrential monsoon rain struck western and

 Southern India.

Flooding and mudslides have Killed 147 people in the States of Karnataka, Kerala & Maharashtra

Reported on Sunday.

Around 57 of those deaths occurred in Kerala, Where more then 165,000 people have been evacuated.

Pressure intensified on Saturday to save thousands still trapped by devastating 

floods that have killed more than 300 in the India Kerala, triggering landslides

and sending torrents sweeping through villages in the region's worst inundation

crisis in a century.

Casualty numbers are expected to increase further, with thousands more people

still stranded. Many have died from being buried in hundreds of landslides set off

by the flooding.

Kerala Chif Minister Vijayan Pinarayi today visited flood-hit districts as heavy rain Killed 

57 people across the State.

Kerala, popular among international tourists for its tropical hills and beaches, has

been battered by record monsoon rainfall this year.

Roads are damaged, mobile phone networks are down, an international airport

has been closed and more then 220,000 people have been left homeless after 

unusually heavy rain in the past nine days.

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                                                             Bhaskar Biswas