Over 100 dead in India floods

Flooding in India's east has claimed more than 100 lives, officials say.

Indian commuters wade through a flooded street in Prafulla Nagar, some 120km north of Calcutta, India, 03 August 2015. (AAP)

Indian commuters wade through a flooded street in Prafulla Nagar, some 120km north of Calcutta, India, 03 August 2015. (AAP) Source: AAP

More than 100 people have been killed, most of them in India's eastern states, during heavy rains and floods over the past week.

More than four million people in 10,000 villages were affected in the states of West Bengal, Orissa and Manipur after cyclone Komen struck the region last Thursday.

Forty-eight people were killed in the worst-hit Bengal region, where 214,000 people had taken shelter in relief camps, Home Ministry officials said.

Many of the deaths were due to drowning, collapsed masonry, lightning strikes and electrocution.

In the remote north-eastern state of Manipur bordering Myanmar, 20 people died when a landslide swept away 12 village homes following rains on Saturday.

Five more people died in the Orissa state, where seven districts were hit by heavy rains.

Another 28 flood-related deaths were reported in the northern state of Rajasthan in the recent days.

Weather officials have predicted heavy rains in eastern and central India over the next few days.


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