NEW DELHI (REUTERS): Nearly four million people have been displaced in India’s northeastern state of Assam and neighbouring Nepal by heavy monsoon floods, with dozens of missing as deaths rose to at least 189.
According to details, the overflowing Brahmaputra River, which flows through China’s Tibet, India, and Bangladesh, has damaged crops and triggered mudslides, displacing millions of people.
In this regard, Assam water resources Minister Keshab Mahanta said, “The flood situation remains critical with most of the rivers flowing menacingly above the danger mark.”
A state government official informed that more than 2.75 million people in Assam have been displaced by three waves of floods since late May, which has claimed the lives of almost 79 people.
In Nepal, the country’s government has asked residents along its southern plains to remain alert as heavy monsoon rains were expected to pound the Himalayan nation.
Nepal police informed that almost 110 people were killed and another 100 were injured as landslides and flash floods washed or swept away homes, displaced hundreds of others in 26 of the country’s 77 districts.
Nepal Home Ministry official Murari Wasti said, “Search and rescue teams are looking for those who are missing in different places but chances of finding them alive are slim.”
An official of Nepal weather forecasting office said that heavy rains were expected to pound much of the mainly mountainous nation in the next four days.
Landslides and flash floods are common in Nepal, India’s Assam and Bihar states during the June-September annual rainy season.
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