It follows devastating floods in Nepal this month which killed at least 225 people, with water adding to already swollen rivers in India and Bangladesh.
Deadly floods and landslides are common across South Asia during the monsoon season from June to September but experts say climate change is making them worse.
In India's northeastern Meghalaya state, "relentless rainfall-induced floods and landslides" had caused a swath of destruction, the chief minister's office said.
"We are saddened to inform that the death toll from the landslides and floods in the Garo Hills region has increased to 15," it said in a statement, with the deaths recorded since Friday.
Those killed include a teacher and his son, who drowned when floods swept away their car.
In neighbouring Bangladesh -- a low-lying nation with large areas made up of deltas where the Ganges and the Brahmaputra wind towards the sea -- five people have been killed since Saturday, the disaster management ministry said.
At least 20,000 people have been forced to flee their homes, it added, but water levels are beginning to drop.
"Floodwaters have started to recede... excessive rain and the water from upstream caused this flood," disaster ministry official Nazmul Abedin said.
Flash flooding kills three in northern Thailand
Bangkok (AFP) Oct 6, 2024 -
Flash flooding in popular Thai tourist hotspot Chiang Mai has killed three people, a health official said Sunday, as visitors evacuated hotels through knee-high muddy water and shops closed in the city centre.
Two elephants also drowned in rapidly rising flood waters north of the city, their sanctuary said Sunday.
In the centre of Chiang Mai, people waded through brown floodwaters in the night bazaar, and water flowed into the central train station, which has now been closed.
Local media reported that thousands of bed-ridden elderly and children were in need of food and evacuation after the Ping River reached an historic high on Saturday night.
By Sunday, the water level had receded slightly, authorities said.
Saritdet Charoenchai, a public health official, said that three people had been killed, including a 44-year-old man who was electrocuted and a 33-year-old woman who died in a "mudslide".
More than 80 people have moved into shelters, he said, as almost a dozen medical centres were closed due to the high water, he added.
A local TV station showed a monk carrying a coffin through floodwaters to a cremation site.
In Mae Tang district, more than 100 elephants at the Elephant Nature Park in Chiang Mai province were moved to higher ground to escape rapidly rising flood waters, an employee who gave her name as Dada, told AFP.
But two elephants -- named in local media as 16-year-old Fahsai and 40-year-old Ploython, who was blind -- were found dead on Saturday.
"My worst nightmare came true when I saw my elephants floating in the water," Saengduean Chailert, the director of the Elephant Nature Park in northern Thailand, told local media.
"I will not let this happen again, I will not make them run from such a flood again," she said, vowing to move them to higher ground ahead of next year's monsoon.
Major inundations have struck parts of northern Thailand as recent heavy downpours caused the Ping River to reach "critical" levels, according to the district office.
Thailand's northern provinces have been hit by large floods since Typhoon Yagi struck the region in early September, with one district reporting its worst inundations in 80 years.
While Thailand experiences annual monsoon rains, man-made climate change is causing more intense weather patterns that can make destructive floods more likely.
Twenty of Thailand's 76 provinces are currently flooded, the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation said Sunday.
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