At least 240 people are now known to have died in floods affecting India, Bangladesh and Nepal, where millions of people face continuing misery.Hundreds of thousands of people in the Indian state of Bihar are short of food and isolated while rescue services are struggling to deliver aid.
Officials in the state of Assam fear malaria and encephalitis epidemics.
The waters in southern Nepal have receded but bridges remain down and roads are cut in several places.
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