11.   The national television news showed flooded villages with water up to the eaves of houses and a rush of brown water tumbling like rapids across fields.

12.   The sun finally broke through rain clouds on Friday, giving relief teams the first chance in days to fly to flooded villages.

13.   Though the Oder River was sinking steadily, officials said it would probably be another two weeks until waters recede from three flooded villages upstream.

14.   Thousands of people who have remained stranded in their flooded villages are drinking polluted water as tube wells were submerged by flood waters, several newspapers reported.

15.   Twenty people, including women and children, were feared drowned Monday after a relief boat evacuating them from their flooded village sank in a river, police said.

16.   Planes were shown dropping food parcels into flooded villages.

17.   The evacuation was the reason behind the low casualty toll in the five flooded villages.