800,000 displaced in flooding in southern Indian state
(WorldNews India)

CHENGANNUR, India (AP) - Some 800,000 people have been displaced and over 350 have died in the worst flooding in a century in southern India’s Kerala state, as authorities rushed to bring drinking water to the most affected areas, officials said Sunday. At least two trains carrying about 1.5 million liters (400,000 gallons) of water moved to the flooded areas from the neighboring states of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, Indian railway official Milind Deouskar said, according to the Press Trust of India news agency. After one of the trains arrived, P.H. Kurian, a top disaster management official in Kerala, said authorities had largely restored the state’s water supply systems....