Heavy rains in Nepal have caused floods and landslides, killing at least 14 people across the country, police said on Sunday.
Flooding in neighboring India, as well as in downstream Bangladesh, is widespread and affects millions of people.
“Police are working with other agencies and the local community to find the missing,” Nepali police spokesman Dan Bahadur Karki told AFP.
There are many people killed and missing.
The June-September monsoon rains cause widespread death and destruction in South Asia every year, but the death toll from floods and landslides has increased in recent years.
Experts say climate change and increased road construction are exacerbating the problem.
Heavy rains have lashed parts of Nepal since Thursday, prompting disaster managers in the Himalayan country to warn of flooding in many rivers.
There were reports of flooding in several districts in the low-lying areas of the Indian border.
At least 14 people were killed in Nepal last month after a powerful storm triggered landslides, lightning and flash floods.
The Assam Disaster Management Authority said on Sunday that floods have inundated India’s northeastern state of Assam, killing six people in the past 24 hours.
This brought the death toll from the rains from mid-May to 58.
In Bangladesh, downstream from India, the disaster agency said the floods had affected more than two million people.
Most of the country consists of a delta that follows the Himalayan river and the Brahmaputra river to the sea after crossing India.
Summer accounts for 70-80 percent of South Asia’s annual rainfall.
