Nepali residents look at floodwaters after the Balkhu River overflowed following monsoon rains (PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP)
At least 75 people are now known to have died due to flash floods across Nepal, Bangladesh and northeastern India.
Monsoon rains have pounded the region, affecting over one million people.
The majority of deaths so far have come in Nepal, where 55 people are known to have died as huge swathes of land were submerged and infrastructure such as roads and bridges destroyed.
Flooding in Bangladesh has badly affected overcrowded Rohingya refugee camps, with two children among the 10 that have been killed.
Ten people have also died in the Indian state of Assam as a result of the monoons, with at least 1.5 million being displaced.
Officials say that the rain has started to ease in some areas, but that a number of rivers remain above flood level.
Bangladeshi lawmakers elected veteran Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir as the country's new president on Thursday, making the longtime opposition figure the head of state after his party came to power in a major political transition.
Russian strikes have killed 16 people and injured more than 40 in Kyiv and the surrounding region on Thursday as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a failure by Ukraine's allies to replenish its stock of air defence missiles was costing lives.
Prince Harry and his wife Meghan plan to move back to Britain this month, six years after they stepped down from their royal duties and relocated to the US, a source close to the couple said.
South Korea's presidential office has condemned North Korea's launch of more than 10 short-range ballistic missiles on Thursday and ordered its military to maintain full readiness during ongoing joint exercises with the United States.
Bangladesh elects ruling party veteran Alamgir as president
Russian strikes kill 16 in Ukraine's Kyiv
Prince Harry and Meghan to move back to Britain
North Korea launches 10 ballistic missiles as US-South Korea drills near end
Kenya tourist helicopter crash kills seven
