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Monsoon season floods South Asian states such as Bangladesh, India, and Nepal.
The photos, which date from 17-29 August, show the catastrophic flooding plagueing the region.
People wade through a water-logged road past a stalled passenger bus during rains in Mumbai, India, 29 August, 2017. (Picture: Shailesh Andrade/Reuters)
Bangladeshi children wade past floodwaters in Gaibandha district, about 120 miles (192 kilometers) north of capital Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday, Aug.19. 2017. Heavy monsoon rains have unleashed landslides and floods that killed hundreds of people in recent days and displaced millions more across northern India, southern Nepal and Bangladesh. Deadly landslides and flooding are common across South Asia during the summer monsoon season that stretches from June to September.
Nepali flood victims gather along a street in Gaur, in Rautahat District some 200km south of the capital Kathmandu, on August 17, 2017. At least 221 people have died and more than 1.5 million have been displaced by monsoon flooding across India, Nepal and Bangladesh, officials said August 15, as rescuers scoured submerged villages for the missing. (Picture: PRAKASH MATHEMAPRAKASH/AFP PHOTO)
In this Friday, Aug. 18, 2017, file photo, the carcass of a tiger lies in floodwaters at the Bagori range inside Kaziranga National Park in the northeastern Indian state of Assam. About 80 per cent of the 480-square-kilometer (185-square-mile) park has been flooded and more than 100 animal carcass recovered, according to news reports.
Indian men uses a makeshift raft to carry an idol of a Hindu deity through flood waters in Balurghat in West Bengal on 17 August 2017.
Bangladeshi flood victims wait in a queue for relief materials in Kurigram on August 17, 2017. Two Bangladeshi teenagers have died taking selfies in raging floodwaters, officials said August 17, as the death toll from fresh monsoon downpours reached 56 with nearly five million people affected.
A man wades through a water-logged road past a stranded car as it rains in Mumbai, India, 29 August 2017.
A man rides his motorbike through a water-logged road during rains in Mumbai, India, 29 August 2017.
Areas such as the Philippines, and South Eastern China have also experienced typhoons and flooding.
A man holds an umbrella while riding his bicycle on a flooded road in Makati, south of Manila, Philippines, 21 August 2017. According to the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) tropical storm Hato will enhance the southwest monsoon which could cause heavy rains, flooding and landslides in Northern Luzon and Western Visayas.
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