Guwahati, June 30: Twelve more people died in floods and landslides in Assam on Wednesday as incessant rain across the state rapidly reversed the improving situation overnight. With this, the death toll in the year’s rainy season since April 6 has risen to 151.
Of the 12, 11 died in the flood — two each in Cachar and Chirang districts and one each in Barpeta, Biswanath, Darrang, Dhemaji, Golaghat, Lakhimpur, and Nagaon districts. The landslide casualty has been reported in Guwahati.
The overflowing rivers hit over six lakh people in the last 12 hours, forcing authorities and the affected people to set up new relief camps to accommodate more than 1.4 lakh people since Tuesday night.
According to the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) report, the affected population on Wednesday increased to over 31 lakh from over 25 lakh just 12 hours back, while the inmates in relief camps have increased from 1.76 lakh to 3.12 lakh in the same period.
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The Central Water Commission has flagged the flood status as “severe” at several monitoring stations of the Brahmaputra river at Neematighat in Jorhat district, Tezpur, and Dhubri.
The flood status due to the Kopili river at Dharamtul, Beki river, and the Barak river at Silchar and Karimganj has also been marked as “severe”. The flood status of the Brahmaputra and several of its tributaries at other places have been labelled as “above normal.”
The CWC in its flood report said, “From the last two days, very heavy rainfall is reported from Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. Hence Brahamputra’s main stem (Dhubri, Goalpara, Jorhat, Sonitpur districts) and its tributaries such as Manas (Bongaigaon district), Subansiri (Lakhimpur district), Burideking (Dibrugarh district), Desang (Sibsagar district) are in rising condition with severe to above normal flood situation as per CWC data.”
