Aid workers are battling tough conditions to reach millions of flood victims throughout south east Asia.
Millions of people have been forced from their homes by floods across the region and are desperate for food and drinking water.
The flooding, described as the heaviest in 30 years, has affected more than 25m people and killed at least 1,450 others in Bangladesh, India and Nepal since monsoon rains began pouring down in June.
The disaster has hit India's Bihar state the worst, where some of the growing number of people marooned by the swirling, muddy water have been fighting for emergency food supplies.
The state's disaster management chief, Manoj Srivastava, put the total number of flood-affected at 11.5m and more than 6,000 villages are submerged.
The waters do appear to be receding but a UN official warned that rivers upstream in Nepal are still overflowing.
At least 1,120 people have died in India as a result of this season's monsoon.
With 36 more deaths overnight, many of them children, the monsoon toll in Bangladesh stands at 282.
