India Flooding Kills Hundreds, Drives More than 800,000 from Homes in Kerala State

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Death tolls of more than 200 to 350 were reported by various news agencies.

The floods have forced more than 800,000 residents from their homes.

Rains are finally diminishing in parts of Kerala state, hit by its worst flooding in a century.

Some 800,000 people have been displaced by the worst flooding in a century in southern India's Kerala state, as authorities rushed to bring drinking water to the most affected areas, officials said. Death tolls of more than 200 to 350 were reported by various news agencies.

At least two trains carrying about 400,000 gallons of water moved to the flooded areas from the neighboring states of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, Indian railway official Milind Deouskar said, according to the Press Trust of India news agency.

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