ASSAM: THE HAVOC OF FLOOD IN THE STATE CONTINUES

The fifth day of the first wave of flood affected 673 number of villages in six number of district such as Hojai, Cachar, Golaghat, Hailakandi, Karimganj, and West Karbi Anglong of Assam .Whereas, in Nagaon and Morigaon districts, crop area have been affected in the flood and places like Brahmaputra at Neamatighat (Jorhat), Dhansiri at Numaligarh (Golaghat), Jia Bharali at N.T. Rd Xing (Sonitpur), Kopili at Kampur (Nagaon), Barak at A.P. Ghat (Cachar) and Badarpurghat (Karimganj), Katakhal at Matizuri (Hailakandi), Kushiyara at Karimganj (Karimganj) are still flowing above danger level.

Five more persons, one from Karimganj, one from Hailakandi and three from Cachar lost their lives today in the Flood taking the total death toll to 9 where total number of affected population today is 4,48,495. Embankment Breaches have also been reported in six places in Hojai. In Karimganj, natural embankment breach has occurred at three points in Longai river and also two more such incidents has been reported by Executive Engineer, Water Resource Division, Karimganj, where public has cut out the embankment themselves.

NDRF (National Disaster Response Force) and SDRF (State Disaster Response Force) teams have been engaged into service in the flood affected areas for search and rescue operation. Today 6153 Persons were rescued in from Karimganj district, Hailakandi, and Cachar by SDRF and NDRF personnel.

235 number of Camps and are operational in Karimganj, Hailakandi, Karbi Anglong (west), Hojai and Cachar with 1,73,245 inmates along with 246 number of Relief Distribution Centres are also operational in Hojai, Cachar and Karimganj Districts of Assam.