Toll from extreme weather events in Assam touches 56
Heavy rains in the North East caused landslides, damaged public infrastructure and crops, and forced the evacuation of thousands of people in recent weeks.
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Eight persons lost their lives in Assam in rain-related incidents on Wednesday, while five others died in Nagaland in the past week amid the continuing spell of extreme weather in the North East, reports said.
The most recent deaths in Assam, of a woman and a child, took the overall toll from floods, landslides and storm-related incidents in the state this year to 56, reported PTI.
The floods have affected 16.25 lakh persons across 29 flood-hit districts in Assam, while 25,744 persons have been shifted to 181 relief camps, the state disaster management body said.
The authorities have sounded an alert in Kamrup [Metro] district with the Brahmaputra, Digaru and Kollong rivers breaching their banks and leaving vast tracts of land inundated.
The waters have also submerged nine anti-poaching camps in the Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve.
In Nagaland, the authorities said that two boys from Kejok village in Tuensang district were swept away by floods at Ayong nullah on June 28, reported PTI.
On June 29, a youth was swept away in the Dzuvuru stream in Kohima and his body could not be retrieved.
On Monday, two persons drowned in separate incidents in Tseminyu and Noklak districts.
The floods have damaged houses, roads, bridges and paddy fields, the Nagaland State Disaster Management Authority said in a...
