Show -- A7 The Herald Journal Logan Utah Wednesday August 14 2002 Q World I I 74 dead PATNA India (AP) — Heavy rains washing down from the foothills of the Himalayas swelled rivers in eastern India worsening monsoon flooding that has killed at least 874 people in India Nepal and Bangladesh officials said Tkiesday i long-await- sands of people in Nepal left homeless by flooding and landslides As many as 422 people have been killed and 250000 more injured in the flooding officials said Monday The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Soci- eties asked international donors for $17 million in immediate aid for flood and landslide victims “The local Red Cross has almost exhausted its stock of relief materials’’ Tamara spokeswoman for the International Committee of the Red Cross said in Katmandu Nepal's capital Most of the landslides occurred in remote mountainous areas that have been cut off because of washed-oroads The villages are now accessible only by helicopter but the government doesn't have the funds or the helicopters to ferry help in quickl‘ New flooding was reporting in northern regions of India’s Bihar state and the Kosi River was flowing higher than normal die Special Relief Commissioner SambhU Sarah : An Indian holy man holds a monkey as he walks under rain in the city of Varanasi in the Incfiah state of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday Northern India which was on the verge of drought saw the arrival of monsoon rains that arrived a month later than usual Other parts of the country are reeling from floods S Asiaa floods - Singh told reporters He said the death toll in the state located between Nepal and Bangladesh had climbed to 26S people in flooding that began across the region in June Thirty people have died in neighboring Assam state Floods have displaced or trapped more than IS million people in the two states home to some 100 million people While the incessant rains are the worst in four years large parts of India are facing the worst drought in 14 years Hundreds of districts in northern and western India where farmers have lost most of their summer crop sown in June and July have been declared drought-h- it In Nepal which hias seen the most deaths in the monsoon flooding aid agencies appealed for help for thou AP photo 5a ut y- “We have not been able to provide enough helicopters to transport relief materials" said Sarvandhan Rai junior civil aviation minister Rising water levels have also increased the threat of typhoid dysentery malaria encephalitis and other diseases spread by water or mosquito aid officials said In Bangladesh at least 157 people have been killed and 6 million have been stranded or displaced in the past two months officials said Monday At least 1 000 homes were washed away Sunday when swells engulfed Hatia island in Noakhali district 75 miles east of Dhaka said Mohammad Ali a district relief official Some 55000 people were stranded in their submerged houses Rising sea levels also inundated Patuakhali a neighboring coastal of town of 80000 people leaving a third of the town under 4 feet of ' water The high tides were caused by a sudden rise in the sea level due to low pressure over the Bay of Bengal weather experts in Dhaka said In the southern Bhola district the Meghna River' fed by floodwaters gushing downstream breached a mud flood barrier inundating several villages and marooning at least 25000 according to the Flood Warning and Forecasting Center in Dhaka delta Bangladesh a low-lyination of 130 million people is crisscrossed by hundreds of rivers many of which begin in Nepal flow through India before draining into the Bay of Bengal ng Iranian prez offers aid to Afghans KABUL Afghanistan (AP) — In the first such visit in 40 years Iran’s president came to Afghanistan on Tuesday with a promise of $500 million in aid and a strong appeal to the new Kabul government to crack down on the Afghan opium that has hooked millions of Iranian addicts President Mohammad Khatami also had strong words for American critics who contend Iran has done lit- tie in the war on terrorism “We are victims of terrorism" he told reporters “We have longer experience than the Americans in fighting ter- - 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