Assam flood situation worsens deteriorates; 50 dead, 24 lakh hit

TIL Desk/National/Guwahati/ With six more deaths in Assam on Monday, the death toll in the ongoing floods has risen to 50 while the situation was deteriorating in 27 of the state”s 33 districts affecting around 24 lakh people, officials said.

Officials of the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) said that the flood situation worsened further on Monday with six people in six districts losing their lives.

The officials said that in the current wave of floods over the past four weeks, deaths have been reported from Lakhimpur, Bongaigaon, Kamrup, Golaghat, Sivasagar, Morigaon, Tinsukia, Dhubri, Nagaon, Nalbari, Barpeta, Dhemaji, Udalguri, Goalpara and Dibrugarh districts, while 26 people have been killed in separate landslides since May 22.