Flooding has killed more than 20 people in northeast India and at least 30 in Bangladesh. The extreme weather has affected millions of homes, with many people still stranded.
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00:00Safe, for now. Residents of Tripura in northeast India seek aid and shelter at a local school
00:10turned relief camp, after floodwaters and landslides destroyed their homes.
00:29Officials say more than 1.7 million people have been affected in this state of India
00:33alone. Soldiers have been deployed to ferry people
00:41from submerged villages to more than 450 camps, where there is now a public health concern.
00:56Across the border in Bangladesh, water is receding in many areas after floods there
01:00left more than 30 dead and millions cut off without food, water or electricity.
01:07The race is now on to ferry those isolated to safety and get essential items to people
01:12in need. Officials here warn that some areas will remain
01:28submerged for the next few days. This is at least the second time in as many
01:34months that the region has been hit by deadly deluges.
01:39In July, monsoon rains across India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan also devastated large areas
01:47of those countries. Experts say that extreme weather like this
01:51is on the rise as the planet warms due to carbon emissions.
01:55And officials across this region warn that the climate crisis will disproportionately
01:59affect poorer rural communities less well placed to mitigate the devastating consequences.
02:06Dolphine Chen and Rick Lowatt for Taiwan Plus.