Over 1.05 lakh people have been affected as flood situation in Assam worsened with people reeling across eight districts. According to a daily flood report of the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA), more than 1,05,700 people are hit due to the floods in Baksa, Barpeta, Darrang, Dhemaji, Goalpara, Karimganj, Nagaon and Nalbari districts.
It said, ‘Karimganj is the worst hit with over 95,300 people suffering, followed by Nagaon where nearly 5,000 people were affected and Dhemaji with more than 3,600 people reeling under flood waters’.
Only around 6,000 people were suffering in flood waters across four districts of the state till Sunday. The total number of people losing their lives in this year’s flood, landslide and storm stands at 34.
The administration has been operating 11 relief camps in one district, where 3,168 people have taken shelter, and running three relief distribution centres in one district.
The authority had distributed 21.5 quintals of rice, 3.81 quintals of dal, 1.14 quintals of salt and 114 litres of mustard oil among the flood victims during the last 24 hours.
Presently, 309 villages are under water and 1,005.7 hectare of crop areas have been damaged across the state. Embankments, roads, bridges and other infrastructure have been damaged by flood waters in Bongaigaon, Chirang, Dhemaji, Goalpara, Hojai, Nagaon, Tamulpur, Darrang, Nalbari, Lakhimpur and Udalguri.
At present, Kopili river at Kampur is flowing above the danger marks.
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