Floods kill at least 175 in South Asia

DHAKA, Bangladesh -- Monsoon rains have killed at least 175 people in Nepal, Bangladesh and India with swollen rivers surging through embankments, flooding thousands of villages and triggering mudslides, relief officials said Wednesday.\nThe rising waters have forced millions in the three countries to flee their homes and search for higher ground.\nThe worst displacement in the region from this month's weather was in Bangladesh, where more than 2 million people sought shelter in schools or atop embankments built in case of floods, according to relief officials in the capital, Dhaka. Many people have lost their houses, crops and livestock.\nA series of mudslides Wednesday in the southeastern city of Chittagong killed two people. The month's death toll of 69 includes 38 people who died from diarrhea caused by drinking polluted water, the officials said.