(Adds snake victims, floods spread) By Gul Yusafzai QUETTA, Pakistan, July 1 (Reuters) - A flash flood swept through six villages in Pakistan's storm-hit Baluchistan province killing 30 people and forcing more than 10,000 from their homes as a huge effort to help up to 1.5 million people geared up. Early rainy season storms have brought death and destruction to parts of Pakistan, Afghanistan and India killing about 600 people over the past 10 days. Pakistan has been worst hit. A storm battered the nation's biggest city, Karachi, on June 23 killing about 230 people. Three days later, a cyclone hit the southwest coast flooding huge tracts of mostly flat, usually desert-like, Baluchistan province. The cyclone and floods have affected between 1.2 million and 1.5 million, deputy provincial relief commissioner Ali Gul Kurd said on Sunday. About 250,000 people are homeless. Persistent rain has aggravated the flooding and caused flash floods like the one that swept away the villages in Khuzdar district on Saturday. "We've managed to find 30 bodies so far but we don't even know how many people are missing," Kurd said. "Everything is being done haphazardly." The military is helping organise rescue and relief efforts with six C-130 cargo aircraft and more than two dozen helicopters carrying out search and rescue and relief operations. Aid is being taken by rail to the town of Sibi and distributed from there while the coastal belt is being supplied by sea. Camps for the homeless were being set up but in the meantime people were crowding into schools. "Most of the displaced have been moved to schools but there aren't enough," Kurd said. Flooding has also increased the danger of snakes and at least three people had been bitten in one district. Authorities were desperate for antivenom, aid workers said. Health secretary Shafi Zehri said supplies were being distributed. BAD WEATHER Sunday was generally clear but the Meteorological Department said more rain was on the way, especially for Sindh province, of which Karachi is capital. Floods inundated about 40 hamlets in northern Sindh on Sunday, affecting 60,000 people, said a provincial official. In the Khyber Pass area, in North West Frontier Province on the border with Afghanistan, about 50 people have been killed as rivers swollen by torrential rain burst their banks. In Afghanistan, NATO peacekeepers have been helping after floods killed more than 40 people, destroyed roads and damaged homes and irrigation works. In India, about 180 people have been killed in storms and floods over the past 10 days. In the western state of Maharashtra, at least eight people were killed in Saturday night storms. In Mumbai, India's financial hub and Maharashtra's capital, rescue workers used rubber boats to ferry people to safety. "We've deployed all our resources to tackle the situation but the amount of rain has been much higher than the capacity of the drainage system," said Mumbai's civic chief Jairaj Pathak. Suburban trains -- Mumbai's lifeline -- were running late, but air services were near normal. Storms have also menaced India's Bay of Bengal coast. The seasonal rain is vital for the region's agriculture and economy. It also brings welcome relief after many hot, dry months but every year the rains kill hundreds of people. (For more information about Pakistan, visit Reuters AlertNet http://www.alertnet.org email: alertnet@reuters.com; +44 207 542 5791) (Additional reporting by Kamran Haider in ISLAMABAD, Krittivas Mukherjee in MUMBAI, a Reuters reporter in HYDERABAD, India and Hamid Sheikh in HYDERABAD, Pakistan)
