Guwahati, May 17: At least 8 humans died throughout North East India withinside the remaining 24 hours, as flash floods and landslides, precipitated via way of means of heavy rains, affected lakhs of humans withinside the region.
Four humans, along with a woman, died in landslides in Arunachal Pradesh. While had been killed whilst their residence become hit via way of means of a landslide in Itanagar, PWD labourers had been killed at Ganga-Jully Basti road.
Four extra humans had been pronounced lifeless in south Assam’s Cachar district because the season’s first wave of floods affected 2,00,000 humans withinside the country.
Landslides wreaked havoc withinside the hill district of Dima Hasao and reduce off teach connectivity to Barak Valley and Tripura. The demise toll has risen to seven withinside the remaining 3 days in Assam.
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Since Sunday, 14 extra districts were stricken by floods, taking the wide variety of flood-hit districts withinside the country to 20. Over 650 villages were marooned via way of means of floodwaters.
A district management legit stated Ratul Chanda, 45, a resident of Neelcherra village in Borkhola circle, Tasmin Begam, 5, of Jatinga in Borkhola, Ilyas Ali, 50, of the identical locality, and Dipak Suklabaidya, 27, a resident of Jirighat in Lakhipur circle of the district, had been all drowned.
The Assam State Disaster Management Authority record on Monday night stated that of the 1. ninety-seven lakh flood-hit humans, 78,157 are in Hojai and 51,357 are in Cachar — the 2 worst flood-hit districts in vital and south Assam, respectively.
