by Jai Upadhyay

AHMEDABAD, India, July 1 (AFP) - At least 94 people have died and some 200,000 have been evacuated due to heavy rains and flash floods in India's western coastal state of Gujarat, officials said Friday amid warnings of worse to come.

"The flood situation is likley to worsen in Gujarat. We have to be prepared for the worst floods," Science Minister Kapil Sibal told reporters in New Delhi. "Only after July 4 or 5 will there be a substantial fall in rainfall."

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, meanwhile,

New Delhi (dpa) - The death toll from monsoon floods in India mounted to 130 on Friday, with about 200,000 people being displaced from their homes.

The torrential rains also threw rail and road traffic out of gear in many parts of the country.

Most of the deaths were reported from the western state of Gujarat. Revenue department officials told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa that 108 people either drowned in flood waters, or were buried alive in mudslides and when buildings collapsed.

"Most of the 108 casualties since

Descripción del Fenómeno

Para el día Sábado 2 de Julio en horas de la tarde se ubicará una Baja Presión 1011 milibares al Este del Golfo de Fonseca, moviéndose hacia el Oeste sobre aguas costeras, para el día Domingo 3, se espera que este sistema en horas de la tarde se ubique al Sur de Guatemala.

Pronóstico

Para este día viernes 1 de julio en horas de la tarde y la noche se esperan tormentas y chubascos principalmente en la zonas centro, Occidente y Nororiental.El día sábado la Baja Presión se estará moviendo lentamente hacia nuestro territorio, y las lluvias asociadas

INDIA METEOROLOGICAL DEPARTMENT

The southwest monsoon had a late start this year. It entered the extreme southeast Bay of Bengal and south Andaman Sea on 26 May, with a delay of 11 days. An extensive cloud mass associated with Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) drifted northwards in the extreme south Arabian Sea in the first week of June. It triggered the onset of monsoon over Kerala on 5 June. The late onset over Kerala was successfully predicted by IMD on 18 May by applying a statistical model. The monsoon advanced over the southern parts of the peninsula reaching upto Goa along

July 1, 2005 - Asadha 10, 1927 - New Delhi
The Defence Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee, presently on tour to the United States has directed the defence forces for all out help in extending relief and rescue support to the civilian authorities in the southern Gujarat and Saurashtra regions, consequent to heavy rains leading to high floods there. Accordingly the Army and the Air Force have launched a massive assistance mission in these areas.

Accordingly 9 Army Columns have been deployed at Rajkot, Khera, Anand and Vadodra. So far 500 Army personnel

Situation
1. Major rivers in NWFP and the Northern Areas of Pakistan have been in high flood since last week due to heavy snowfall during winter and unprecedented high temperatures prevailing in the region for the last two weeks. The situation is likely to worsen during the next few days as the water level in the rivers is continuously rising that are already in very high floods.

2. In NWFP, the worst affected districts are Peshawar, Charsadda and Nowshera where vast areas along Kabul River and its tributaries have been inundated. The floods have affected almost

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In Brief

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The Situation