South Asia Monsoon Death Toll Reaches 1,800

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NEW DELHI - The death toll from monsoon flooding in India crossed 1,000 Wednesday with reports of more than 150 people killed in the country's west and north, as rains destroyed crops, flooded highways and halted trains in South Asia.

The toll across South Asia from six weeks of monsoons reached 1,799, according to official figures compiled by The Associated Press.

Nearly 130 deaths occurred in India's western Gujarat state over the past three days, in remote areas unreachable by roads or telephone, said state spokesman I.K. Jadeja. They included 17 people killed when heavy rains smashed three homes in Bharuch district. On Tuesday, mudslides surged into an underground tunnel of the Tehri Dam power project, killing 30 workers and injuring 10 others, said N.S. Napalchyl, the principal disaster management secretary in northern Uttaranchal state, 185 miles north of New Delhi. Twenty-five bodies had been recovered by Wednesday and five remained buried under rubble, he said."

In Bangladesh, a boat carrying 10 villagers across a lake in a storm overturned on Wednesday, drowning a 3-year-old girl and a 70-year-old man while eight others swam to safety, said Nurul Afsar, an official in Moulvibazar district."

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