Dhaka, July 17 -- The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has stepped up emergency relief operations in Bangladesh as weeks of intense rainfall, flooding and landslides have triggered one of the country's worst monsoon disasters this year, affecting more than 10 lakh people across 10 districts.

As humanitarian needs continue to rise, the UN migration agency is expanding life-saving assistance for flood-hit communities, including Rohingya refugees and their Bangladeshi hosts, while urging sustained international support to strengthen resilience against increasingly frequent climate-related disasters, according to an IOM press release.

Death toll from floods, landslides rises to 57

More than 10 lakh people have been affected a...