Flooding leaves 3.5 million people homeless in India
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GUWAHATI, India  - Soldiers in motor boats rescued thousands of marooned people and helicopters air-dropped food as the number of people made homeless after some of the worst flooding in years in India's northeast rose to 3.5 million.
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At least 54 people have died and more than a million have fled their homes as torrential rains lashed parts of India and Bangladesh, officials said.
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Up to five million people in the tsunami-struck Indian Ocean region lack access to the basic supplies they need to stay alive, such as clean water, shelter, food, sanitation and health
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Heavy rains and flooding killed at least 45 people in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh and left nearly 100 children stranded on the roof of their school, a top government official said Saturday.
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Up to five million people have been left without the resources for daily life by the Indian Ocean tsunami, lacking either water, food or basic sanitation, a senior UN official said on Wednesday.
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Blocked roads and rushing water hamper efforts to save survivors of floods in the Philippines which have killed almost 350.
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By ANTHONY DEUTSCH  JAKARTA, Indonesia - A boat ride with emergency workers Tuesday revealed the hardships residents are suffering five days after torrential rains unleashed floodwaters that have killed 44 people and chased hundreds of thousands from their homes in this city of 12 million.
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Rescuers scoured waterlogged coasts across Asia today after an earthquake of epic power struck below the Indian Ocean and sent huge walls of water crashing onto beaches in eight countries, killing more than 13,344 people and leaving millions homeless.
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Three days of heavy rain and flash floods killed 57 people across several Indian states and forced more than 100,000 from their homes, officials said Saturday.
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Rescuers and volunteers are struggling to reach nearly 190,000 Indonesians left homeless by devastating floods sparked by heavy rains in and around Jakarta, as the death toll rose to seven.
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Storms in eastern India and Bangladesh   have killed more than 170 people and left around 375,000   homeless over the past four days, officials said on Saturday.
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Many people are evacuated from their homes and three people die as severe floods hit England and Wales.
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A South Korean aid group claimed Wednesday that massive floods in North Korea last month left about 54,700 people dead or missing and some 2.5 million homeless. The figure is by far the highest toll reported from floods that hit the impoverished communist country in mid-July.
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Aid workers backed by military  helicopters battled on Sunday to provide food for 200,000  people displaced by monsoon floods in southern India, while the  Pakistani city of Karachi was mostly without power after a  storm killed 43 people.
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Villages are inundated and several thousand people stranded after flash floods in Indian-administered Kashmir.
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Heavy rain and floods kill at least 45 people in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
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A rickshaw puller transports passengers as others wade through knee-deep floodwater in Tarun Nagar area of Gauhati, in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, Saturday, Oct. 9, 2004.