Hundreds killed by annual monsoon floods in South Asia

‘Nearly 1,000 people have been killed or are missing after heavy monsoon rain and flooding in northern India, southern Nepal and northern Bangladesh.
Officials said on Thursday that some 40 million people had been affected, with the highest death toll in India followed by Nepal and Bangladesh.
The areas affected by monsoon stretched across the Himalayan foothills in the three countries, causing landslides, damaging roads and electric towers and washing away tens of thousands of homes and crops.
The northern Indian states of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Assam in the remote northeast are the worst hit, accounting for 680 deaths, most of them from drowning, snake bites or landslides.
Disaster management authorities in Bihar said the state’s death toll of 367 could go up further as floodwaters recede and bodies are recovered from submerged houses.’
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