Helicopters dropped food to almost 2 million marooned villagers in India on Saturday as the death toll from unusually heavy monsoon rains and floods in South Asia crossed 200, officials said.At least 229 people have been killed in India and neighboring Bangladesh, and 19 million driven from their homes in recent days.
The number of dead in Bangladesh rose to 81 Saturday, up from 65 a day earlier, the country's information ministry said in a statement. Raging floodwaters have battered 38 out of 64 districts in the delta nation of 145 million people.
Fakhruddin Ahmed, head of Bangladesh's military-backed interim government, visited the northwestern district of Sirajganj on Saturday to see flood-affected areas.
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