Guwahati: Four people, including a child, were drowned in the flood waters on Monday taking the toll in the deluge to five, even as the flood situation in Assam deteriorated following incessant rainfall affecting 80,000 people.
One person was killed and nearly a lakh people have been affected by the flood in Assam on Monday.
Three women and a child were drowned in Barpeta’s Bhella town when their cropland was inundated by the rising waters of River Nakhanda, official sources said.
The four have been identified as Rehana Begum, Rita Begum, Halida Begum and five-year old Monima Begum.
A report stated that a child, age and gender not specified, drowned in Goreswar circle in Bask district adjoining Bhutan.
Nearly 80,000 people have been affected by the current wave of floods, while road communication was disrupted in many parts of the affected districts.
Assam is reeling under intense flood in the last 72 hours with more than 2.44 lakh people got affected by floods in 14 districts across Assam.
A source from the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) said that over thirty thousand people have been shifted to various relief camps.
The disaster management body of Assam said Barpeta district was the worst affected district.
More than 98,000 people in 20 villages having been displaced by rivers flowing down from Bhutan.
The flood affected districts include Lakhimpur, Dhemaji, Dibrugarh, Barpeta, Kamrup (Rural), Baksa, Udalguri, Sonitpur, Nagaon and Dhubri.
Incessant rainfall in the catchment areas during the last week have led to a rise in the water level of the Brahmaputra.
Its tributaries are overrunning the vast tracts of farmland and villages in ten districts of Lower and Upper Assam and Hailakandi in Barak Valley.
In Bajali sub-division of Barpeta, surging waters of the Kaladiya river breached dykes and embankments at many places inundating villages and fields.
In Dhubri district severe erosion has been reported from villages on the banks of Gauranga river, a tributary of the Brahmaputra, while in Darrang water from the Sathtola river has breached dykes at many places with the Patharughat- Moirabari road submerged under water.
Reports said that the 14 districts affected by flood five western Assam districts were the worst hit displacing 88,940 people and damaging crops across 4427.95ha of farmland.
The source further said that the flood situation turned grim in five western Assam districts since the last two days.
It added that most rivers in many districts overflowed affecting nearly 80 villages.
The report also said Assam registered 17% increase in rainfall above normal in the current month with floods affecting 7443 hectares of crop area so far.
“We are monitoring Brahmaputra and other rivers. Except for four, water level in most of these rivers is falling,” said an officer of Assam State Disaster Management Authority on Monday. (Agencies)