Floods in India, Bangladesh and Nepal kill more than 1,200 people

More than 41 million people have been affected by flooding in India

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More than 41 million people have been affected by flooding in India

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The death toll from floods sweeping South Asia has climbed above 1,200.

More than 41 million people have been affected by flooding in India

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More than 1,200 people have been killed as flooding and heavy rainfall continues to devastate countries in South Asia. The floods, the result of the monsoon season, are the worst to hit India, Bangladesh and Nepal in years, according to aid agencies. Around 41 million people across the region have been affected, with many forced to flee their homes in search of shelter.

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 More than 1,200 people have been killed as flooding and heavy rainfall continues to devastate countries in South Asia

The floods, the result of the monsoon season, are the worst to hit India, Bangladesh and Nepal in years, according to aid agencies. Around 41 million people across the region have been affected, with many forced to flee their homes in search of shelter.

Quick facts 
6.9 million people affected in Bangladesh
32.1 million people affected in India
1.7 million people affected in Nepal

The deluges have caused landslides, washing away thousands of family homes, schools and hospitals. People’s livelihoods have been ruined as farmland drowns. Infrastructure is on its knees with water damaging roads and electric towers.

The severity of the monsoon this year means that people in villages away from cities are experiencing a shortage of food and clean water.

But people are trying to carry on with their lives, trudging down once thriving streets with water up to their waist, umbrellas barely protecting them from the downpours.

Queuing to receive food after being displaced by floods.

 Those who have escaped the worst of the rain are offering up spare rooms and sofas with the hashtag

One of the reasons that flooding affects South Asian cities so badly is because of urban planning, according to one expert. As the countries cater to the influx of people moving away from villages, they build up the cities but do not properly account for drainage. “You still have to have proper draining. It was a green field and now it’s an urban area. Quite often, if you don’t do that, (because) you’ve concreted everything the flood run-off is so much higher and the deaths are much worse,” Paul Sayers, of Oxford University, told CNN. The governments in India, Bangladesh and Nepal are coordinating rescue operations and local medical teams have been deployed. Relief packages have been announced to provide food and necessities to those affected.

The rain in pictures: India

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The rain in pictures:

 India

Indian girls wade through flooded street during heavy rain showers in Mumbai on 29 August 2017.

Heavy rain brought India’s financial capital Mumbai to a virtual standstill on 29 August 2017.

The death toll from floods sweeping South Asia has climbed above 1,200.

An Indian villager stands atop her partially submerged house at Alal village in Malda district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Nepal

 A Nepali man crosses flood waters in Tilathi Village in Saptari District, some 450km southeast of the capital Kathmandu.

A Nepalese resident looks out from her inundated home at floodwaters at Janakpur.

Nepali people transit along a water logged street in Patan, south of Kathmandu.

A woman walks past houses damaged by flood in Itahari, Sunsari district, some 250 kms from Nepal’s capital Kathmandu.

Bangladesh

          Bangladeshi commuters use a rickshaw to cross a flooded street amid heavy rainfall in Dhaka.

Bangladeshi flood victims wait in a queue for relief materials in Kurigram.

Bangladeshis sail on a raft made of banana tree trunks in an area submerged by flood in Kurigram, northern Bangladesh.

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More than 1,200 people have been killed as flooding and heavy rainfall continues to devastate countries in South Asia. The floods, the result of the monsoon season, are the worst to hit India, Bangladesh and Nepal in years, according to aid agencies. Around 41 million people across the region have been affected, with many forced to flee their homes in search of shelter.

Read more at: https://inews.co.uk/essentials/news/world/flooding-india-bangladesh-nepal-kills-1200-people/

More than 41 million people have been affected by flooding in India (pictured), Nepal and Bangladesh (AFP/Getty)

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More than 41 million people have been affected by flooding in India (pictured), Nepal and Bangladesh (AFP/Getty)

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on 8/30/2017