Devastating monsoon floods have laid waste to much of South Asia in recent weeks, killing more than 2,000 people and displacing millions. Aid workers reaching remote areas in India reported finding 34 more bodies between Sunday and Monday.

Meanwhile, the United Nations warned that Bangladesh could face acute food shortages because floods have destroyed hundreds of thousands of acres of crops.

Heavy monsoon rains lashed many parts of Pakistan late Sunday and early Monday.

A wild storm left 22 people dead in the remote village of Rano Mera, many of them trapped in collapsed houses, said Saeed Khan Aurakzai, the government's top administration official in the region. Relief and rescue teams rushed to the village in rugged Kohistan district.

Flooding and falling tree branches cut off roads briefly on Sunday night in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad.

Parts of Pakistan's largest city, the port of Karachi, remained inundated four days after a violent storm left at least 35 dead, most of them electrocuted or crushed in their homes.

In the northern Indian state of Bihar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar ordered government relief agencies to continue air drops of assistance to the worst-hit areas.

The decision was prompted by violent riots in the town of Sonebarsa, where police killed one person and wounded four Sunday after hundreds of people ransacked a local relief office to protest the lack of aid.

The government had earlier said it would end the air drops because land routes had been re-established to most of the flood-hit areas.