NEW DELHI , India ( CNN ) -- The number of dead in devastating floods triggered by torrential rains in India has risen to at least 271 , and about a million people have fled their homes , officials said Monday . An aerial view of a flood-affected area in Bijapur district in North Karnataka , India . At least 192 people have died in the southern state of Karnataka , its disaster-management secretary H.V . Parshwanath told CNN . More than 450,000 people there have been housed in 1,330 relief camps as authorities completed rescue operations in most of the flooded zones in the state , he said . `` The focus is now mainly on relief , '' Parshwanath said , adding that rains have now eased in Karnataka . In neighboring Andhra Pradesh , authorities put the death toll at 51 . Some 531,000 people have been evacuated to safety , with more half of them now sheltering in relief camps , said Dinesh Kumar , the commissioner of the state 's disaster-monitoring department . India has deployed the military to help with relief and rescue in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh . More than a dozen teams of naval divers have been sent to the two flood-hit states , the country 's defense ministry said . Air force planes and helicopters have also been dropping food packets in the submerged regions . The military has been able to rescue 1,336 people so far , it added . Flood waters were now receding in two of the five worst hit districts of Andhra Pradesh , disaster official Kumar said . But floodwaters from a local river might submerge the remaining three , he warned . Flooding also killed at least 25 people in Maharashtra state , officials said . Three others died because of lightning strikes , said S.C. Mohanty , director of Maharashtra 's disaster-management department . About 3,000 people have been displaced because of flooding , he told CNN . Thousands of people die each year in India during seasonal monsoon rains . More than 1,100 had been killed in monsoon-triggered flooding in different parts of the country as of last month , according to the disaster-management division of the federal home ministry .
Death toll from floods in Karnataka has now reached 1,330 . Over a million people have been forced to flee their homes . 271 people in southern state of India housed in Over 450,000 relief camps .