Commuters make their way through a water-logged street after a heavy downpour in Dhaka on July 21, 2020. (MUNIR UZ ZAMAN / AFP)

DHAKA / NEW DELHI - More than 200 people have died in India and Bangladesh while over 11 million people have been affected as monsoon floods continued to wreck havoc in the two countries already reeling from the coronavirus pandemic. 

According to Bangladesh's National Disaster Response Coordination Center (NDRCC), a total of 4,378,732 people were affected due to the floods in 31 out of the country's total 64 districts as flood waters displaced hundreds of thousands of families

Almost half of Bangladesh and nearly 5 million of its residents were affected by floods as of Monday with the country's disaster response coordination center reporting that 119 people had died in 21 districts since June 30.

In neighboring India, the state of Assam reported 102 people killed in the floods and over 5.6 million people affected. In Bihar, state officials said at least 10 people died and 1.5 million affected by flood waters.   

According to Bangladesh's National Disaster Response Coordination Center (NDRCC), a total of 4,378,732 people were affected due to the floods in 31 out of the country's total 64 districts as flood waters displaced hundreds of thousands of families.

Of 119 reported dead, 96 died of drowning, 13 of snakebites, eight of lightning, and one of diarrhea.

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Officials said the onrush of water from hills across the Indian border has virtually worsened the situation in the country.

Bangladeshi State Minister for Disaster Management and Relief Md Enamur Rahman said they had rushed teams of disaster response forces to carry out the rescue, distribute relief materials and supervise centers where the flood-affected families have taken shelter.

Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked officials to remain alert to tackle floods which come as a further blow at a time when the country is feeling the severe pinch of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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In India's northeastern state of Assam, the floods have so far killed 102 people and badly affected a population of over 5.6 million, officials said on Monday, when the country is being gripped by the COVID-19 pandemic.

"There has been no respite in the flood situation in the state and as per cumulative figures available with us, it has hit 30 districts and affected a population of 5,671,018," said Mandira, project manager at Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA). "The number of human lives that have been lost during this period because of flooding is 102."

In this photograph taken on July 15, 2020, forest officials carry a tranquillized tiger on a stretcher after it strayed out from Kaziranga National Park due to flooding and took shelter in a house at Baghmari village of Nagaon district in Assam State. People and animals alike have been affected -- in India's Assam state, around 90 percent of the famous 430-square-kilometre (166-square-mile) Kaziranga National Park is under water, drowning several rhinos and wild boars. (PHOTO / AFP)

Floods hit the state on May 22 and there has been no let-up in the situation.

"There has been no improvement in the weather situation which precisely is the reason waters are not receding fully," she said. "Some times it recedes at certain places but again the situation turns grim as rains are continuing."

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According to the ASDMA, the flood water has so far inundated 5,304 villages, damaging the cropland of over 259,899.44 hectares during the past 37 days.

The local government has set up relief centres in almost all the inundated districts to provide shelter to the affected population. Locals said the majority of the people were taking shelter in houses of their friends and relatives.

"In the flood-hit areas, there are around 384 joint teams from state and national disaster response teams carrying out rescue and relief efforts. So far 81,012 people were evacuated and presently 615 relief camps have been set up for the affected people," Mandira said.

"So far 6,827 houses were fully damaged because of the floods and 32,057 have suffered partial damage," she said.

Villagers paddle their boat next to a partially submerged hut in the flood affected area of Hatishila, in Kamrup district of Assam state on July 14, 2020. (PHOTO / AFP)

Meanwhile, more than 95 percent of the Kaziranga national park, a UNESCO world heritage site remains submerged in floodwaters. Wildlife officials said at least 123 wild animals have died in floods and 150 others rescued.

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In India’s eastern state of Bihar, at least 10 people were killed and nearly 1.5 million people were affected by floods in 11 districts, the state disaster management department said in a bulletin on Sunday.

Darbhanga was the worst-affected district as 536,000 people have either been displaced or are trapped inside their homes, the department said.

In Muzaffarpur district, over 200,000 people have been affected, while the number of flood victims in East Champaran reached 272,000, it added.

Seventeen teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and eight of the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) involved in the rescue operations have evacuated 136,000 people so far, while 14,011 people have been put up in 26 relief camps, according to the department.

State authorities have set up 463 community kitchens to feed around 177,000 people in the state as Indian Air Force (IAF) helicopters have dropped food packets in several flood-hit areas, the department said.