<div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">Lashing rains in Nepal causing flash floods and landslides have killed at least 14 people across the country, with disaster teams searching for nine missing, police said Sunday.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Flooding in neighbouring India, as well as in downstream Bangladesh, has also caused widespread damage and impacted millions.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Police are working with other agencies and locals to find the missing people," Nepalese police spokesman Dan Bahadur Karki told AFP.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Those killed and missing are in multiple locations.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Monsoon rains from June to September bring widespread death and destruction every year across South Asia, but the numbers of fatal floods and landslides have increased in recent years.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Experts say climate change and increased road construction are exacerbating the problem.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Parts of Nepal have been receiving heavy rainfall since Thursday, prompting disaster authorities in the Himalayan nation to warn of flash floods in multiple rivers.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There have been reports of inundation in several districts of lowland areas bordering India.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Last month 14 people were killed in Nepal in ferocious storms that brought landslides, lightning and flooding.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In India, floods have swamped the northeastern state of Assam, with six people killed in the last 24 hours, Assam's Disaster Management Authority said Sunday.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">That takes the death toll from the downpours since mid-May to 58.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In low-lying Bangladesh, downstream from India, the disaster management agency said floods had impacted more than two million people.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Much of the country is made up of deltas where the Himalayan rivers the Ganges and the Brahmaputra wind towards the sea after coursing through India.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The summer monsoon brings South Asia 70-80 percent of its annual rainfall. AFP</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>