Assam flood situation deteriorates, 10 lakh people affected

The flood situation in Assam deteriorated as incessant rains pounded the state today and four more persons lost their lives in it as the calamity affected nearly 10 lakh people in over 2,000 villages.

A girl paddles a country boat through the flood affected Kholabuya village, 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Gauhati, India, Wednesday, September 2. Monsoon floods have inundated hundreds of villages across the northeast Indian state of Assam, killing at several people and forcing some 800,000 people to leave their homes. (Source: AP)

With today's four death the toll in the current spell of floods has risen to 24. A total 29 has been killed in the two spells of floods this year.

A woman cleans utensils inside her partially submerged house at Gagolmari village 85 kilometers (53 miles) east of Gauhati, India. (Source: AP)

It said nearly 10 lakh persons are affected in 2,005 villages across Dhemaji, Kokrajhar, Bongaigaon, Sonitpur, Barpeta, Goalpara, Morigaon, Cachar, Lakhimpur, Jorhat, Tinsukia, Darrang, Baksa, Nalbari, Kamrup, Dibrugarh, Sivasagar, Golaghat and Nagaon districts.

A child sleeps inside a temporary shelter on an embankment of the River Brahmaputra at Borbori village, 90 kilometers (56 miles) east of Gauhati, India. (Source: AP)

Dhemaji is the worst-hit district where nearly 2.4 lakh people are reeling due to the flood. It is followed by Dibrugarh where more than 1.34 lakh people have been affected.

A woman collects drinking water as she stands in the flood waters at Gagolmari village 85 kilometers (53 miles) east of Gauhati. (Source: AP)

ASDMA said nearly 1.7 lakh hectares of crop land are under water and authorities have opened 308 relief camps in Kokrajhar, Bongaigaon, Barpeta, Cachar, Dhemaji, Tinsukia, Sonitpur, Nalbari, Dibrugarh, Morigaon and Nagaon providing shelter to more than 1.75 lakh people.

Villagers use a makeshift banana raft to cross floodwaters as they try to reach safer areas at Gagolmari village. (Source: AP)

The ASDMA report said Brahmaputra is flowing above its danger marks also at Dibrugarh, Goalpara and Dhubri towns, Nematighat in Jorhat and Tezpur.

A boy eats rice inside his house partially submerged in flood waters at Gagolmari village. (Source: AP)

Flood waters have damaged at least 18 roads in Morigaon, Golaghat, Dhemaji, Jorhat, Lakhimpur, Goalpara, Cachar, Dibrugarh, Sonitpur and Darrang and over four bridges were damaged in Jorhat, Dibrugarh, Darrang and Nalbari since Tuesday (September 1).

A family uses a makeshift banana raft to cross floodwaters as they try to reach safer areas at Kholabuya village, 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Gauhati, India. (Source: AP)

A child carries a sack through the floodwaters at Kholabuya village. (Source: AP)

A family prepare to cross floodwaters on a banana raft at Balimukh village, about 70 kilometers (43 miles) east of Gauhati, India, Tuesday, September 1. (Source: AP)

A woman catches fish as a boat crosses partially submerged houses at Gagolmari village. (Source: AP)

People wade through floodwaters to shift to safer areas in flood-affected Lakhimpur district of Assam on Tuesday (September 1). (Source: PTI)

People ride a boat across flood waters in Kaziranga National Park on Wednesday (September 2). (Source: PTI)