The flood situation has worsened in Assam after surging waters from different rivers submerged 13 districts of the State and affected close to four lakh people even as there are reports that two people including a minor girl died due to drowning in past 24 hours.
The officials of the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) on Tuesday said that floods have affected 3,80,743 people in over 800 villages of the 13 districts as on Tuesday while the situation in Karimganj district has turned worst where over two lakh people were marooned by the floods.
Apart from Karimganj district, the other flood hit districts are lakhimpur, Jorhat, Golaghat, Cachar, Dhemaji Biswanath, Sonitpur, Hojai, Majuli, Barpeta, Nagaon and Nalbari.
While, one two year old minor girl, reportedly drowned in lakhimpur district, the district administration of Hojai recovered the body of one Mahendra Dekaraja (47) late yesterday. Dekaraja who was suspected to have been drowned was missing since Sunday — this took the overall death told due to flood to two so far.
Over 24,000 people have also abandoned their houses due to floods and taken shelter in 148 relief camp set up by the concerned district administration officials in seven districts.
“Flood have also submerged 19.133.48 hectares of cropland in the flood affected districts affecting the standing crops in some areas,” a senior ASDMA officials said while adding that roads and bridges have also been affected in different areas cutting the communication links.
Meanwhile, the water resources department, said that different rivers in the state are flowing above danger level in the state which might deteriorate the situation in the days to come. While the Brahmaputra river is flowing above danger level at Neematighat in Jorhat and at Tezpur in Sonitpur districts, Dikhow river is flowing above danger level at Sivsagar followed by Dhansiri flowing above danger level at Golaghat district. Similarly, Barak and Kushiara rivers are also flowing above danger levels at Karimganj district.