A boat carrying people to a flood shelter capsized in Bangladesh today to push the death toll higher as the worst flooding in years hit the capital of Dhaka.
A boat taking people to a shelter in Narsingdi, 60 miles from Dhaka, capsized, drowning 11 people, officials said.
The death toll from three weeks of devastation in Bangladesh is more than 400, and floods have killed more than 1,000 across south Asia. About two-thirds of the low-lying nation is under water in the worst floods in 15 years.
Disaster relief officials said new deaths were reported from all over the country from drowning, disease and snakebites and when houses collapsed.
The floods have also killed as many as 630 people in India's eastern state of Bihar and northeastern state of Assam.
In Bihar, state relief minister Ram Vichar Rai said more than 320 bodies had been found in remote areas in the last 72 hours as flood waters receded. The toll could rise sharply in coming days, he said.
The death toll in the northeastern Indian state of Assam rose to 170, officials said. About 12 million people had been affected by the floods, which had disrupted essential supplies.
"There is an acute scarcity of baby food and over 500,000 babies affected during the floods are starving," Assam Health Minister Mr Bhumidhar Burman said.