While Assam is fighting an all-out war against a COVID-19, the flood situation, triggered by heavy rains, is also worsening in the state. On Monday, four more people died taking the total death toll due to floods in the state to 24.
According to a report by news agency IANS, more than 13 lakh people in 25 of the state’s 33 districts have been affected.
Officials of the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) said that in the current wave of floods since early last week, nine persons have so far died in Barpeta, Dhemaji, Udalguri, Goalpara and Dibrugarh districts taking the total death toll to 24 in the floods and 23 more people were killed in separate landslides since May 22.
The northeast region of the country, including Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, is under a spell of floods. Most rivers including the mighty Brahmaputra are flowing above danger levels in many places and inundating fresh areas everyday.
