Floods claim around 115 lives in India's western coastal states

Photo taken on Aug. 11, 2019 shows a flooded bird sanctuary in Mandya district, Karnataka state, India. Around 115 people have died over the past three days in a fresh spate of floods in India, this time in several states located along the western coast, including Kerala, Karnataka, Maharashtra, and Gujarat, said media reports on Sunday. The worst-affected is the southern state of Kerala from where a maximum of 57 deaths have been reported over the past three days. Karnataka has reported as many as 26 deaths, while around 20 persons lost their lives in Gujarat. (Photo by Kashif Masood/Xinhua)