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Three drown in Brahmaputra

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GUWAHATI: Three persons including a three-year-old drowned in the swirling waters of rain-fed Brahmaputra River at Uzanbazar area in the heart of the city on Wednesday afternoon.

Police said two college students Ms Kusum Devi , Ms Sunam Upadhyay along with a three year-old child Garba Upadhyay were swept away by the strong current of Brahmaputra after they had accidentally fell into the river. The trio was part of a marriage party who had come to attend a wedding in the area. The two girls were students of a city college.

Divers of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) swung into action to trace the bodies which are yet to be found.

It may be noted thatIncessant rains in parts of Assam and the upper reaches of neighbouring Arunachal Pradesh have caused flash floods in Sonitpur and Dhemaji districts, where nearly 30,000 people are affected. Continuous rains for the last three days in Sonitpur district’s Tezpur subdivision inundated vast riverine areas and damaged standing crops at Dalabari, Besseria, Parbatia, Panchmile and Koroiyani. and Rajbharal, official sources said today. Fed by the rains in Arunachal Pradesh along its course, the Brahmaputra and its tributaries were rising alarmingly towards the danger level in the district. Rivers Jiabhorali at Khalihamari and Gabharu near NH-52 with other major tributaries were also rising.

 

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