Overview of flood-borne devastation in parts of Africa, Asia

Floods continue to plague some of the poorest parts of Asia and Africa.

"The first time the flood water came in to my house it stayed for eight days. The water came back yesterday; almost 100 houses are flooded again here," Kanti Devi, a resident of Muzaffarpur, India, tells BBC News. "Everybody is nervous and scared. The children are frightened of snakes and leeches brought by the flood."

IRIN, a U.N. news provider, reports that 4,000 grammar schools have been closed in neighboring Bangladesh because of the monsoon rains. Nearly 60,000 Bangladeshis are thought to be suffering from diarrhea caused by water-borne diseases, while the death toll from monsoon-related floods is now said to exceed 1,700 in India, Nepal and Bangladesh. (BBC News says estimates of the death toll range from 500 to 3,000.)

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