ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistani troops used helicopters and boats to evacuate thousands of marooned people from the country's plains where raging monsoon floods inundated more villages Thursday, officials said. In neighbouring India, the military dropped food for hundreds of thousands of people marooned in flood-hit areas of Indian-held Kashmir.

Pakistani and Indian officials said the death toll had reached 461 in the two countries.

Flash floods have washed away crops, damaged tens of thousands of homes and affected over a million people since Sept. 3, when heavy monsoon rains lashed Pakistan's eastern Punjab province and the Kashmir region, claimed by both India and Pakistan.

Many homes and even hospitals in the capital Srinagar are submerged but patchy communication means people do not know if their loved ones are safe.

Across the border in Pakistan the authorities are preparing to battle rising rivers threatening Multan city. The death toll in the two countries has passed 450 and is growing by the day.

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