Top: A woman being moved to safety after her village in Guntur district became flooded. Below: A famly prepares to eat in knee-deep water in Vijayawada.
Some of southern India’s worst flooding in decades has left at least 2.5 million people homeless across the states of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.
More than 300 others are reported to have died in the flood disaster. Millions of acres of farmland, including the region’s key sugarcane crop, have been submerged.
National and international relief agencies and organizations were mobilized to combat the spread of disease, and to provide food, clean water and medicine to the vast affected area.
The flooding is blamed on a disturbance that moved ashore from the Bay of Bengal.
It came shortly after meteorologists announced that a weak summer monsoon had brought northern India its worst drought since 1972.
Photos: T. Vijaya Kumar / V. Raju