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More than 500,000 people affected by Flood in Assam
By Assam on August 31, 2008
Flood situation in Assam is becoming worse day by day. Soldiers of the Indian Army and Indian Air Force helicopters were called into service on Sunday to rescue villagers in Assam after a new wave of flash floods displaced more than 500,000 people in the Eastern State of India.
A government of Assam spokesman said that the districts of Kamrup, Barpeta, Jorhat, Lakhimpur, and Dhemaji have been badly affected by this new wave of flood. According to official reports, about 1000 villages are under flood water and 12 person lost their lives.
The situation turned severe on Sunday, in the Puthimari area of Kamrup district where a breach in an embankment submerged about 30 villages, displacing an estimated 50,000 people. Indian Air Force helicopters were immediately pressed into service to rescue trapped villagers in Puthimari, which is about 40 km west of Assam’s capital city ‘Guwahati’.
Assam Flood Situation
So far, four people were rescued by an IAF helicopter, while army soldiers using rubber boats and rafts moved to safety several hundred people in the area. Makeshift shelters were also opened in government schools and offices for the displaced villagers.
“So far an estimated 500,000 people have been affected by the floods. We have confirmed reports of 12 deaths so far during the current wave of flooding, most of them in Lakhimpur district,” said B. Pipersenia, principal secretary of the Assam Revenue department.
On the other hand, thousands of people have been displaced after the surging Brahmaputra river breached a vital embankment along Majuli, World’s largest river island. A water resources department official said at least a quarter of the the 421 sq km island in Jorhat district, 320 km east of Guwahati, was submerged after a breach in a mud embankment. About 60,000 people have been displaced in 50 villages of Majuli. Now, there is a severe shortage of food and other essentials in the island with all links to outer world snapped by the flood.
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