District administrations have opened 81 relief camps in flood-hit districts housing 21,931 marooned people
Guwahati: The overall flood situation continued to be grim in Assam with over six lakh people affected across 14 districts till Sunday evening while one person died in Lakhimpur on Sunday taking flood-related death toll to seven this year.
An Assam Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) official said that the floods have inundated large areas in Tinsukia district on Sunday, besides Lakhimpur, Golaghat, Morigaon, Jorhat, Dhemaji, Sivsagar, Kokrajhar, Barpeta, Bongaigaon, Nagaon, Dhubri, Dibrugarh and Chirang districts, which have remained flooded since last few days.
“As on today (Sunday), 6,41,043 people in 1,206 villages in the 14 districts remained affected due to the current flash of floods. The concerned district administrations have opened 81 relief camps in the flood hit districts housing 21,931 marooned people,” an ASDMA official said.
One person died due to floods in Lakhimpur district on Sunday, the ASDMA officials said. Two deaths – one in Lakhimpur and another in Morigaon – due to floods were reported on Saturday. Sources in the Inland Water Resources (IWR) department said that the ferry services between Dhala to Sadiya, and Neematighat to Majuli have been suspended due to increasing water level of Brhamaputra river at many places.-IANS
