Dispur: According to an official release by the Assam State
Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA), nearly one lakh people were suffering in
Jorhat, Sivasagar, Tinsukia, Dibrugarh, Cachar and Charaideo districts.
Authorities have opened 40 relief
camps in Sivasagar, Tinsukia, Dibrugarh and Charaideo where 7,412 inmates were
taking shelter. So far nearly 5,000 hectares of crop area have been inundated
by flood water. Currently, Burhidihing and Desang Naglamuraga rivers were
flowing above the danger mark in Sivasagar.
Army, NDRF and SDRF teams have been
deployed for search and rescue operations in flood affected areas of Charaideo
district. Relief materials have been distributed to flood affected people in
Sivasagar, Dibrugarh, Tinsukia and Charaideo.
Landslides in Dima Hasao district
have also cut off road and railway communication to the Barak Valley in
southern Assam. An official in the Northeast Frontier Railway headquarters said
that the train services that had resumed on Sunday after clearing the debris at
several places had to be cancelled once again on Monday due to fresh landslides
between Lumding and Badarpur.
Weather condition continued to
remain very inclement in affected areas as road communication remained
disrupted to the Barak Valley.
In Arunachal Pradesh, the death toll
caused by landslides has reached 19 after one more person was killed in
Hayuliang in Anjaw district on Sunday evening. An official in Itanagar said
that while road communication to Hawai, the Anjaw district headquarters,
remained cut off for the fourth consecutive day on Monday, fresh landslides
have completely cut off the district from the rest of the world.
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