GUWAHATI, India: Six people have been killed in floods precipitated by torrential rains across northeast India and neighbouring Bangladesh that inundated the homes of more than a million others, officials said on Wednesday.
Monsoon rains cause widespread destruction every year, but experts say climate change is shifting weather patterns and increasing the number of extreme weather events.
Disaster authorities in India´s northeastern state of Assam said four people had died over the past day, bringing the number of people killed there over successive downpours since mid-May to 38.
In Bangladesh, landslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains killed two people including a Rohingya refugee early on Wednesday, police commander Jahirul Hoque Bhuiyan told AFP.
Bhuiyan said authorities in Bangladesh´s vast relief camps -- home to around a million Rohingya refugees from neighbouring Myanmar -- had relocated some inhabitants to safety.