540 people have been killed in Karnataka and neighbouring Andhra Pradesh in heavy rain since Wednesday
Nina Halder
Oct. 2, 2009

Havoc rain has killed more than 500 people and displaced millions.

The army boats and air force helicopters on Friday began to rescue hundreds of people marooned at several places.

One hundred and four people have died in six north Karnataka districts and 26 in Andhra Pradesh in the torrential rain caused by a deep depression in the Bay of Bengal. Hundreds of people in the two states were trapped in flood waters and were waiting on rooftops and higher places to be rescued. Thousands more have been rendered homeless. In Karnataka, the maximum number of 29 deaths were reported from Bijapur.

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