Toll rises in South Asia floods Flood victims in eastern India were eating raw wheat flour to survive as devastating monsoon flooding in South Asia continued to spread misery among millions. Monsoon flooding kills 530 in South Asia Authorities rushed food, drinking water and medicine to India's flood-hit areas on Friday to ward off epidemics, as thousands of people returned to their damaged homes and the death toll in South Asia reached at least 530 people. South Asia floods toll passes 2,000 mark The death toll from the worst monsoon floods to hit South Asia in decades passed 2,000 on Thursday even as the torrents of muddy water recede from millions of acres of farmland.