FLOOD waters that have submerged two-thirds of Bangladesh leaving 30 million people cut off or homeless will not recede for at least a week, experts warned as the death toll across Asia rose to 101,187.

Residents of the Bangladesh capital Dhaka waded through sewage and rowed boats through the flooded city of 10 million people today, as 109 more people died, bringing the toll from monsoon rains in South Asia to 1,187.