END TIMES WEATHER:Sun Shines in South Asia, Misery Lingers

BARABANKI,India-The sun broke out and floodwaters across South Asia began to recede Monday as torrential monsoon rains eased, allowing doctors to treat scores of people suffering from waterborne diseases and deliver medicine to prevent the outbreak of epidemics.
But hunger,thirst and the need for safe shelter still stalked the region,where millions have been displaced by flooding.The death toll also marched relentlessly upward,with at least 297 people killed in the past week,authorities said.Since the June start of the monsoon season,the
government says more than 1,200 people have died in India alone,with scores of others killed in Bangladesh and neighboring Nepal.Some 14 million people in India and 5 million in Bangladesh have been displaced by flooding,according to government figures.Helicopters dropped more food and emergency supplies to stranded people Sunday and the Indian army helped civil authorities carry out rescue operations.Flour,salt, candles and match boxes were airlifted to Uttar Pradesh and Bihar states,where hundreds of thousands escaped to higher ground,camping out near national highways and railway tracks.
"It's the fifth day today that my shop is closed.We are praying to God to save us from this calamity,"Maiku Lal said Sunday from Ganeshganj,a thriving market town in Utter Pradesh now underwater from the flooded Ghaghra River.Makeshift shelters were overflowing,as most villagers brought their cows,buffaloes and goats along as they fled rising waters.Nearly a dozen homes collapsed overnight in Uttar Pradesh.Major rivers were receding in the worst-hit districts in India,as well as in eastern and central Bangladesh.But with so much contaminated water covering farms and villages,doctors and paramedics started handing out medicines in India to prevent diarrhea,skin rashes and other waterborne diseases.Army doctors treated 235 people suffering from diseases in makeshift camps near Gorakhpur,a town 150 miles southeast of Uttar Pradesh's state capital, Lucknow."Our effort is to prevent the outbreak of an epidemic,"S. K. Gupta,an Indian army officer,told The AP.With no rain for three days,floodwaters were also receding in eastern Bihar state where nearly 10 million people have been affected,said Manoj Srivastava,the disaster management secretary."Once road links are restored,the flow of relief material will naturally improve,"he said.People also started returning to their homes in India's northeastern state of Assam,where nearly 200,000 people have been displaced.It had not rained there since
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