Explain “How many people have died in India due to flash floods?
BANGALORE, India — Flash floods and heavy rains sweeping southern India have killed at least 76 people over the past 72 hours, officials said on Friday. Sixty died in Karnataka state and 16 were killed in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh, officials said. There has been “incessant rainfall”, R.P. Jagdish, a senior Karnataka government aide, told AFP by telephone. Army troops and air force helicopters were rescuing marooned villagers and distributing food packets and medical aid in areas cut off by flood waters. “At least 25 villages are inundated and standing crops are completely destroyed,” Andhra Pradesh disaster management officer Y.R.V. Sharma told AFP. Authorities were shifting hundreds of people living in low-lying areas to school buildings and temples on higher ground. The monsoon season, which began in June, withdraws from the Indian subcontinent by the end of September. But a depression in the Bay of Bengal and heavy cloud in the Arabian Sea have led to intense rains in the southern
