The 2008 Indian floods were a series of floods in various states of India during the 2008 monsoon season [June to September and sometimes continuing into October.] Countrywide India's death toll from floods in various states was 2,404 from June to September. Among them in Andhra Pradesh 53 people reportedly died due to floods. In Hyderabad alone 14 people were killed, when they were crushed by the collapsing roofs of their homes. This article will show other causes of death and some numbers from previous year's monsoons. Widespread death and property destruction are reported every year.
Saturday, August 11, 2007 selected from www.washingtonpost.com By JULHAS ALAM The Associated Press Monsoon rains are vital to farmers in South Asia, whose crops feed hundreds of millions of people. The monsoon season runs from June to September. As of Saturday, August 11, 2007 [last year] More than 200 people died in Pakistan, as buildings weakened by downpours continued to collapse. People drink from stagnant pools left behind by the flood waters or from wells contaminated by filth washed in by the floods. "The illiterate parents initially do not take their babies to doctors, and it is often too late when they take them to the hospital," Ahmed said. Also, ignorance about how to rehydrate people with diarrhea simply by drinking water with some sugar and salt mixed in, led to many preventable serious cases or even deaths, he said. At least 2,120 people have died this year (2007,) double the number killed last year (2006.) Some 600 have perished in the past two weeks alone and on Saturday, officials said at least 40 people died. Two days later msnbc reported August 13, 2007 www.msnbc.msn.com "At least 34 more deaths were reported Monday in India, while a violent storm killed 22 people in Pakistan…" Friday, July 29, 2005 from bbc news news.bbc.co.uk "The number of people killed around the Indian city of Mumbai (Bombay) has risen to more than 800. Late on Thursday 22 people, including several children, died in a stampede in a Mumbai suburb. Another cause of death is epidemics that could be caused by the large amounts of animal carcasses. The home ministry says the carcasses of 17,000 goats and 1,000 buffaloes and cows are strewn in the city's western and eastern suburbs. [the monsoon continued for several more weeks into September.] July 29, 2004] Deaths from monsoon rains across South Asia reached 1300 on Wednesday, with Bangladesh's government reporting more than 450 people killed... [the monsoon continued for several more weeks into September.] About a week later August 9, 2004 cbs www.cbsnews.com reported Monsoon Death Toll Tops 2,000, India Is Hardest Hit; Most Victims Killed By Mudslides And Disease Thirty-nine bodies were found floating [probably drowned] in receding flood waters in eastern India, as the death toll from this season's monsoon rains across South Asia rose above 2,000.
The toll already is well above last year (2003), when 1,500 people were killed during the monsoon, which usually runs from June through September, though last year continued into October.
At least 1,191 people have died in India, 694 in Bangladesh, 124 in Nepal and five in Pakistan, bringing the toll to 2,014, last overflowed in 2000, killing more than 100 people and washing away dozens of bridges and roads. Officially, 9,803 people died from the storm of 29 October, 1999.