61.   In Udon Thani province, five people drowned and four were electrocuted.

62.   In the northwestern province of Ardebil province, five people drowned and three disappeared in floods that devastated farms, homes and roads.

63.   Local news reports in Poland said four people drowned there.

64.   Most deaths occurred when people drowned while trying to swim to safety in the swirling flood waters or when houses collapsed in the torrential downpours.

65.   More than fifty people were feared drowned Thursday when the ferry that was carrying them across the Nile river in the southern province of Minya sank.

66.   Nine people drowned on Saturday after a boat capsized at the confluence of the Luangwa and Zambezi rivers, police said.

67.   Nineteen people drowned when their boat sank in a river in western India on Monday, United News of India news agency said.

68.   Nine people drowned, civil defense officials said Tuesday.

69.   Nine people drowned and several were still missing, while about a dozen were rescued, the official Xinhua news agency said.

70.   On other islands, two people drowned in high seas in Guadeloupe and Dominica.