GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) – Flash floods and landslides in India’s northeast Assam state killed a minimum of 25 individuals and displaced over 650,000 from their properties in the previous 10 days, officers mentioned on Tuesday.
Heavy monsoons are a yearly prevalence in Assam, ensuing in flooding and landslides which power residents to flee their properties, usually forsaking their belongings.
The Brahmaputra River, one of many largest rivers in the world which flows from Tibet to India and eventually into Bangladesh, burst its banks in Assam, inundating greater than 1,800 villages in 26 districts this month.
“Twenty individuals have died in separate incidents of drowning and 5 extra had been killed in landslides in the previous 10 days,” mentioned Pijush Hazarika, Assam’s water assets minister, including that water ranges had been receding.
Parts of the railway community had been devastated.
Authorities have additionally arrange 366 aid camps throughout 20 districts, offering short-term shelter for greater than 95,000 individuals. Roads, properties and buildings have been inundated by flood waters in elements of the state.
(Reporting by Zarir Hussain in Guwahati; Editing by Kim Coghill)
