Army personnel on small boats delivered relief material on Monday across flooded towns and villages in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh and northeastern India endeavored to provide aid to more than nine million people marooned after the heaviest rains in years killed at least 54 people across both South Asian nations. “The situation is still alarming,” Mohammad Mosharraf Hossain, Sylhet division’s chief administrator, told Reuters by phone.

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Monsoon storms in Bangladesh and India have unleashed devastating floods.

Floods are a regular occurrence in low-lying Bangladesh, but experts say climate change is increasing their frequency, ferocity and unpredictability.

Relentless downpours over the past week have inundated vast stretches of Bangladesh’s northeast, with troops deployed to evacuate households cut off from neighbouring communities.

Reuters/Aljazeera.