Flash floods sweep across southern India, washing out roads and forcing villagers from their homes.<br/> <br />Fed by monsoon rains, the floodwaters inundated much of the coastal state of Andhra Pradesh.<br/> <br />Locals did what they could to keep the water at bay, but 200 villages were evacuated.<br/> <br />Forty towns remained cut off from the outside world.<br/> <br />The rains also hammered the city of Warangal, making the going tough for a host of residents.<br/> <br />There are signs of relief, though. Officials say the water levels in one major state river have started to recede.<br/> <br />The flooding follows torrential rains that devastated a vast part of northern India last month.<br/> <br />Officials toured the state of Uttarakhand, and saw the damage for themselves.<br/> <br />These latest floods - dubbed a Himalayan tsunami - killed at least 580 people, and another 6,000 remain missing.
