South Asia’s 6m people under flood threat: IFRC

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) today feared that nearly six million people across South Asia are under threat from rising flood waters following heavy monsoon rains. “Red Cross and Red Crescent volunteers across Bangladesh, India, and Nepal are racing to deliver emergency supplies to communities and prepare them as the situation in many areas is likely to worsen in the coming days, an IFRC press release issued simultaneous from Geneva and Kuala Lumpur today said.