Five people died in different districts of Assam due to floods on Sunday taking the death toll to nine in the first wave of floods that have hit the State earlier this week even as over 4.4 lakh people are still reeling under six flood hit districts of the State as on Sund.
“While five persons died in Karimganj, Hailakandi and in Cachar distrixts today, four people have died earlier taking the death toll to nine so far,” Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) said today while adding that there are reports of flood waters inundating new areas.
A total of 4,48,495 people in 673 villages are stilled marooned by the floods as on today, ASDMA officials said adding.
While Hojai, Cachar, Golaghat, Hailakandi, Karimganj, and West Karbi Anglong districts are reeling under flood waters since Wednesday last, flood waters have also affected agricultural lands in Morigaon and Nagaon districts in last 24 hours.
“In Karimganj, natural embankment breach has occurred at three points in longai river and also two more such incidents have been reported,” the officials said adding that embankment breaches have also been reported in six places in Hojai.
ASDMA officials said that the National Disaster Response Force and State Disaster Response Force teams have been engaged into service in the flood affected areas for search and rescue operation. “Today 6,153 Persons were rescued in from Karimganj, Hailakandi, and Cachar districts by SDRF and NDRF personnel,” the officials said.
A total of 235 number of Camps and are operational in Karimganj, Hailakandi, Karbi Anglong (west), Hojai and Cachar with 1,73,245 inmates taking shelter as on Sunday. 246 number of Relief Distribution Centres are also operational in Hojai, Cachar and Karimganj Districts of Assam.
It may be mentioned here that the Brahmaputra river is flowing above danger level at Neamatighat (Jorhat), Dhansiri river is flowing above danger level at at Numaligarh in Golaghat district. Similarly, Jia Bharali is flowing above danger level at Sonitpur followed by Kopili at Nagaon, Barak river at Cachar) and Badarpurghat (Karimganj),and Kushiyara river is flowing above danger level at at Karimganj.