Guwahati: Over 1.33 lakh people spread over 243 villages in 11 districts are affected due to floods caused by heavy rainfall, according to Flood Reporting And Information Management System. As many as 74 relief camps have been opened by the district administrations to house people from flood-affected areas, it informed.
Biswanath, Bongaigaon, Chirang, Dhemaji, Dibrugarh, Jorhat, Lakhimpur, Majuli, Sivasagar, Sonitpur and Tinsukia are among the districts inundated by floodwaters of the Brahmaputra and its tributaries. Over 160 people were evacuated using boats from Bongaigaon, Chirang, and Dhemaji.
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The daily bulletin issued by Assam State Disaster Management Agency (ASDMA) on Friday said no loss of human or animal life has been reported so far. The highest number of 63,891 people have been affected in Bongaigaon, followed by 31,500 in Dhemaji and 13,239 in Majuli. The bulletin added that five medical teams have also been deployed.
Large-scale erosion has been reported from several places in Baksa, Biswanath, Bongaigaon, Chirang, Goalpara, Cachar, Jorhat, Kokrajhar, Majuli, Morigaon, Nalbari, Sonitpur and Tinsukia, the bulletin said.
