Indian and Nepalese authorities have called in army personnel to help rescue hundreds of thousands of marooned people, officials in the two countries said.

India accounted for the bulk of flood-related deaths in South Asia with the toll touching 99, a government official said Monday.

The eastern and northeastern parts of the country, particularly the states of Assam, Bihar and West Bengal, have been most-severely affected.

The floods have so far displaced close to three million people in the northeast, an Assam state official said.

The deteriorating flood situation in Bihar and Assam was raised during discussions Monday in the lower house of India's parliament where opposition MPs demanded the government send a federal team to ascertain the damage and oversee relief operations.

"The state government (of Bihar) has completely failed in providing relief," MP Sushil Kumar Modi said.

"Diseases are spreading. Water has inundated even the homes of district magistrates of Saharsa and Madhubani district," he said.

In neighbouring Nepal, five days of incessant rain caused heavy flooding and landslides in the southeastern and southwestern regions which had claimed 46 lives, officials said Monday.

The Nepalese government has deployed army and police personnel and local volunteers in flood affected districts to help bring villagers to safer areas.

Bangladesh too was in the grip of floods and bracing for worse after large parts of the north were submerged and 1.5 million people marooned by rising waters. Eight people died at the weekend from flood-related causes, police said.

Forecasters said they expected more low-lying areas to be inundated over the next few days, the official news agency BSS said.

The Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre in Dhaka said heavy monsoon rains and gushing water from streams and smaller rivers were likely to cause more flooding in the northeastern Sylhet and Sunamganj districts and the northern Netrokona district.

It added that all major rivers were flowing above the danger level and that the Surma river in the northeast was rising sharply.

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