Monsoon season 2019: Floods in India, Nepal, Pakistan and Bangladesh leave death toll over 150 today

New Delhi, India -- Torrential monsoon rains swept away homes and triggered landslides across South Asia, affecting millions of people and claiming at least 180 lives, officials said Tuesday. But the downpours from June to September can turn deadly and have wreaked havoc again this year.Across India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan-administered Kashmir, people, dwellings and boats in remote low-lying areas have been washed away.In Nepal, at least 67 people have died although flood waters have started receding. Authorities in Assam declared a red alert Monday as the flood situation turned critical, with villages cut off by surging waters and a major highway submerged.Photos showed residents crammed in boats carrying their belongings to safer areas in Morigaon, one of the worst-affected districts, and just the roofs of submerged homes above water. At least two people were confirmed dead, and local politician Amin Patel told The Associated Press at the scene that there was "still a chance of about 10 to 12 families trapped under the rubble."Patel said national military and rescue teams were on their way to join in the frantic rescue efforts.Authorities also scrambled to reach animals marooned by the deluge at the state's World-Heritage listed Kaziranga National Park, which is home to two-thirds of the world's one-horned rhinos.In Bihar, 24 deaths were reported, with 2.5 million residents affected.Among the dead were three children who drowned as they went to check the rising water level in a canal. Two others died while playing near a ditch filled with floodwater, the Press Trust of India reported.At least five children drowned in Bangladesh on Monday, taking the toll in the country to 34, including 18 hit by lightning and seven who drowned after their boat capsized in choppy waters in the Bay of Bengal.Hundreds of thousands have been marooned by floodwater in the country's north, with one of the major Himalayan rivers, the Brahmaputra, swollen to 40 inches above the "danger level," officials said.Further northwest, in the Pakistan-administered part of the Kashmir region, flash floods killed 23 people and damaged 120 houses, with the water and power supplies crippled.The United Nations said Monday it "stands ready to work with the authorities in the affected countries as they respond to the humanitarian needs resulting from this ongoing monsoon season." 50 years ago, millions of people were glued to their television sets as Apollo 11​ launched to the moon 50 years ago, millions of people were glued to their television sets as Apollo 11​ launched to the moon CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite reported early Tuesday morning, July 16, 1969, that the astronauts were pronounced “fit as a fiddle” and ready to fly.