Last month 14 people were killed in Nepal in ferocious storms that brought landslides, lightning and flooding
\n KATHMANDU
\nLashing rains in Nepal causing flash floods and landslides have killed at least 14 people across the country, with disaster teams searching for nine missing, police said Sunday.
\nFlooding in neighbouring India, as well as in downstream Bangladesh, has also caused widespread damage and impacted millions.
\n\u201cPolice are working with other agencies and locals to find the missing people,\u201d Nepalese police spokesman Dan Bahadur Karki told AFP.
\nThose killed and missing are in multiple locations.
\nMonsoon rains from June to September bring widespread death and destruction every year across South Asia, but the numbers of fatal floods and landslides have increased in recent years.
\nExperts say climate change and increased road construction are exacerbating the problem.
\nParts of Nepal have been receiving heavy rainfall since Thursday, prompting disaster authorities in the Himalayan nation to warn of flash floods in multiple rivers.
\nThere have been reports of inundation in several districts of lowland areas bordering India.
\nLast month 14 people were killed in Nepal in ferocious storms that brought landslides, lightning and flooding.
\nIn India, floods have swamped the northeastern state of Assam, with six people killed in the last 24 hours, Assam\u2019s Disaster Management Authority said Sunday.
\nThat takes the death toll from the downpours since mid-May to 58.
\nIn low-lying Bangladesh, downstream from India, the disaster management agency said floods had impacted more than two million people.
\nMuch of the country is made up of deltas where the Himalayan rivers the Ganges and the Brahmaputra wind towards the sea after coursing through India.
\nThe summer monsoon brings South Asia 70-80 percent of its annual rainfall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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