Guwahati: Unabated floods in Assam have claimed three lives, washed as many others since Monday and affected over eight lakh people in 18 districts with incessant rains sending Brahmaputra and its tributaries in spate. One person died in the flood at Chabua in Dibrugarh district on Monday and a woman and her child on Tuesday morning due to a landslide following heavy rainfall at Kalipahar area in Amingaon of Kamrup(Rural) district this morning, police said.
A driver of a truck and his handiman were swept away along with the vehicle near Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary in Morigaon district on Tuesday by surging flood waters flowing over the highway. Another person was washed away on Monday and is still missing in Doomdooma circle of Tinsukia district, police said.
Three lives were claimed by the floods, an annual natural calamity in Assam, on Monday — two in Dhemaji district and one in Cachar district, the daily bulletin of Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) said. The deluge has so far claimed 25 lives and washed away four others, reports PTI. The flood waters have inundated over 1.5 lakh farm fields with standing crops, ASDMA said. Brahmaputra is flowing above the danger mark at Dibrugarh town.
