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GUWAHATI, India, July 28 (Reuters) -
Torrential overnight rains set off more floods in eastern India as the death toll from floods in India, Nepal and Bangladesh passed 300, officials said on Sunday.
Swollen rivers that criss-cross the densely populated region where the three countries come together have forced millions to leave their homes.
Tea and oil-rich northeastern Assam state sought on Sunday aid from international aid agencies as food, medicine and other relief materials started to run out.
"We have asked for tarpaulin sheets, mosquito nets, baby food, clothes," Prafulla Chandra Mahanta, a civil servant told Reuters at Marigaon, about 50 kms (30 miles) from Guwahati.
More than half of Assam has been flooded, with 18 of the 23 districts under water, flood control officials said.
Nearly three million people were living in temporary shelters or fled to higher ground. Thirty six people have died in the past 10 days due to floods, officials said.
"I have become a beggar", said 45-year-old farmer Simanta Kalita, who owned a house, a paddy field and dozens of cattle in Marigaon. He is now left with only a towel to wrap round his waist and a fishing net.
Heavy rains have washed away top bitumen layer of roads in the state, which now looks like rocky riverbeds, making it difficult for vehicles carrying food supplies to move in flood hit areas.
In the eastern Indian state of Bihar, the state sought more army help as the force of the floods increased.
Bihar's relief and rehabilitation commissioner Girish Shankar said about seven million people in the country's second-most populous state have been forced from their homes displaced by the floods which have claimed 42 lives in the past week.
"We have set up 61 relief camps, 73 health camps and 46 animal health camps in the flood hit areas", Shankar said.
NEPAL, BANGLADESH FLOODS
In the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal, fresh floods and landslides triggered by more rains killed seven people taking the number of deaths in the impoverished nation to 227 in two weeks,
Officials said more than a third of the mountainous nation of 23.1 million people had been affected by floods or landslides.
"Some people whose houses have been swept away by landslides are waiting in mountain caves in Makawanpur for rescue workers," Home (interior) Ministry official Lekhnath Pokharel told Reuters.
In Bangladesh, where a third of the country is under water, floods forced more than 50,000 people out of their homes as eight northern districts were hit by fresh flooding, officials said on Sunday. Officials said the death toll in the week-old wave of flooding remained at 13.
"The floods have affected nearly 2.7 million people have damaged 250,000 homes and standing paddy on 300,000 acres (187,500 hectares) land and washed away over 6,000 km roads," Ebadur disaster management minister Rahman Chowdhury said.
The latest deluge came close on the heels of earlier floods that killed around 50 people in early July.
"Intestinal diseases have broken out in flood-hit areas and medical teams are treating affected people," said Abdul Mazid, a disaster management official in northern Rangpur, which is some 350 km (219 miles) from Dhaka.
Authorities said the flood situation was likely to worsen as rivers continued to bring in more water from the flood-affected eastern Indian states.