India, China floods leave thousands presumed dead A woman grieves for a relative killed in a landslide in Dujiangyan, Sichuan Province, on Friday. A total of 5748 people missing after last month's floods in northern India are presumed dead, authorities say, while in China at least 295 people are dead or missing after rainstorms and Typhoon Soulik hit the country. In India, Uttarakhand state Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna said anyone who was still missing after the floods would be declared dead to allow the government to start paying their families compensation, "We will issue the list later today," he said. The government would pay 500,000 rupees ($9218) for each victim. Waves surge up against the Diaobin fishing port in Wenling city, as eastern China braced for torrential downpours from Typhoon Soulik. Heavy monsoon rains in India last month caught thousands of pilgrims visiting Hindu shrines in the Himalayan region - tourists and locals - after triggering devastating landslides and flash floods. The earlier confirmed death toll was about 900. Piyush Rautela, the director of Uttarakhand's disaster management division, said the exact number may never be known. A landslide damaged houses in Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province. "Many of the bodies may have been washed away by raging rivers or buried under debris," he said. Nearly 109,000 people were rescued in land and air operations by the military. The early monsoon rains flooded 4200 villages and were estimated to be the heaviest in the region in 88 years. Rautela said the administration was still providing relief materials including food and medicine to people in remote areas, as well as rebuilding roads and bridges destroyed by floods. In China, Typhoon Soulik has caused floods, landslides and buildings to collapse, with the southwestern province of Sichuan the worst hit. Torrential rains have battered the province since July 7, causing 68 deaths, the ministry of civil affairs said, with another 179 people missing. The official Xinhua news agency reported that officials were calculating the cost of the typhoon, with the Zhejiang city of Wenzhou alone facing a direct economic loss of 210 million yuan ($37.65 million).