Monsoon flooding has killed at least 29 people in eastern India and Bangladesh and left hundreds of thousands of people displaced from their homes or cut off in their villages.
In the Indian states of Assam and Bihar, at least 24 people, including three children, have been killed in weather-related incidents since yesterday morning, bringing the death toll to 75 in a week.
Around 4 million people have been affected, with many seeking shelter on bridges, rooftops and high ground.
Officials in neighbouring Bangladesh said 500,000 people were stranded in their homes while tens of thousands have found shelter in close to 100 relief camps.
The floods in the low-lying nation now cover half its area, with troops in boats providing medicines and food to some marooned residents and evacuating others.
The country's summer flood death toll crossed 160, with five more flood-related deaths reported, including three children.
The deaths are the latest fatalities from storms, landslides and monsoon flooding in south Asia this month that have killed hundreds in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Nepal.
Further east in Asia, deaths from floods, lightning and landslides across China this summer have reached nearly 700, with 17 people killed in fierce storms and hail over the weekend.
