7-year-old girl killed by landslide at Guwahati

Guwahati: A  7-year-old school girl, Dipika Barman, was buried alive on her way to school on Monday morning because of a landslide that occurred near the railway line at Panikhati area in the outskirt of the city. The landslide also damaged three houses in the area while another school girl was injured.

Police said the girl had been dug out by locals and rushed to Guwahati Medical College Hospital (GMCH) where she was declared dead.  Her lunch box, water bottle and the school bag were retrieved by the locals.

Landslide also occurred at 12^th Mile area near Jorabat  at  Umpher village along  Guwahati-Shillong road on MOnday morning and damaged a few houses in the area. Heavy rainfall since Sunday afternoon  could be the immediate cause of landslides.

A body was recovered from an inundated drain at Narangi area in the city on Monday morning while body of Mohendra Dekaroja who had been swept away by flood water from  flood-affected Kaki  at Lanka in Nagaon district, was recovered from  swirling Dimaru River at Kaki by personnel of National Disaster Response Force.

The over all flood situation has remained grip in Assam especially in Lakhimpur and Sonitpur districts and Barak Valley areas.  Flood water has breached embankments ant many places in the state belittling the tall claimed made by the state government to have repaired all the breaches on river embankments in the state by Mach 31 this year.