Another 16 people were reported killed in floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains in southern India Sunday, taking the toll in the past five days to 62, officials said.
The Godavari River in Andhra Pradesh rose 10 feet (three metres) above the danger mark, prompting authorities to move about 14,000 families to relief camps, the Press Trust of India quoted unnamed officials as saying.
More than a dozen helicopters, naval boats, and many small mechanised boats were pressed into service to rescue people.
Unrelenting rains also lashed western Maharashtra state, where 15 people died and more than 10,000 people moved to safer places over the weekend after the Godavari, which begins in the state, crossed the danger mark in several places.
The weather office predicted more rains in Maharashtra over the next 12 hours.
Heavy monsoon rains, which sweep India from late May to September, also caused flooding in large parts of the Maharashtra state capital Mumbai, bringing rail and road traffic to a halt in the country's financial centre.
The latest deaths brought the nationwide toll since the start of monsoon season in mid-May to 432.
