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Monsoon rains heap misery across Asia

Hundreds dead, millions displaced in flash floods, landslides

AFP, Yangon
Monsoon rains have claimed the lives of hundreds of people across Asia, authorities said yesterday, as rescue workers scrambled to reach remote areas of India, Pakistan and Myanmar in the wake of flash floods and landslides.
Authorities in India say more than 120 people have died across the country in recent days, while more than a million have been displaced by rains worsened by a
cyclone that barrelled through the Bay of Bengal last week.
Yesterday, rescuers resumed their search for villagers after downpours caused a landslide in remote northeastern Manipur, where an official said four bodies have been recovered from a hamlet buried by a collapsed hill.
In neighbouring Myanmar the belt of heavy seasonal rains - augmented by Cyclone Komen - have killed 46 people so far and affected more than 200,000 with rooftop-high floods.
The government there has focused relief and rescue efforts on four "national disaster-affected regions" in central and western Myanmar, where villagers have been forced to use canoes and makeshift rafts to escape the rising waters.
Thousands of others are already in camps for the displaced including in Kalay, Sagaing Region, where residents told of unusually powerful flood waters swamping homes in hours.
"We've lost all that we have. Our house is still under water," Htay Shein, 62, told AFP from a temporary shelter in Kalay.
"We have seen floods, but never anything like this before. This year is the worst."
The United Nations warned swollen rivers threaten more areas of the country, adding it could be days before the true extent of the disaster emerges.
Landslides in Chin state - south of Sagaing - have destroyed 700 homes in the state capital Hakha, according to the state-run Global New Light of Myanmar.
President Thein Sein has promised the government will do its "utmost" to provide relief, but said parts of Chin had been cut off from surrounding areas, the report added.
Rains have also battered the western state of Rakhine which already hosts about 140,000 displaced people, mainly Rohingya Muslims, who live in exposed coastal camps following deadly 2012 unrest between the minority group and Buddhists.
The annual monsoon is a lifeline for farmers across the region but the rains and frequent powerful cyclones that usher them in can also prove deadly.
Poor infrastructure and limited search and rescue capabilities routinely hamper relief efforts across the region, more so as roads, phone lines and electricity are knocked out by rising waters.
India, which receives nearly 80 percent of its annual rainfall from June to September, sees tragedy strike every monsoon season.