Monsoon floods kill 90 in India

Authorities asked air force helicopters to help evacuate nearly 300 passengers stranded in a train on flooded rail tracks in western Gujarat state where heavy monsoon rains have killed at least 90 people this week, a news report said today.

Nearly 200,000 people have been evacuated from their flooded homes to higher ground in the state, Press Trust of India quoted officials as saying in Gandhinagar, the capital of Gujarat state.