Flood took 58 life's in Assam. Heavy rain to continue throughout the week -

Jul 7, 2024 -

Flood situation in Assam continues to deteriorate further. Nearly 29 districts of Assam are under the effect of the dangerous Flood with more than 24 lacs people suffering from it. The flood killed nearly 114 wild animals in Kaziranga as the flood water intrudes the National Park. Earlier the flood was concentrated to Upper Assam & adjoining Foothills of Arunachal Pradesh, but now the condition has shifted to lower Assam with the worst district in suffering is Dhubri. Nearly 8 lacs people of that district is under the ravage of the Flood. More than 3500 villages are under flood water as the water of tributaries of Brahmaputra along with the main stream is flowing above the Danger level in many areas destroying transport services. There's no improvement expected in the rainfall activities of Assam for the next 10 days at least. A Cyclonic circulation is located over Northeast Assam connected with the monsoon trough with height causing the Monsoon winds to enter the state while the state topography capturing those moisture & clouds & not letting them go. Additionally the high cliff of Eastern Himalaya causing extremely heavy rainfall in isolated parts. This rainfall causing increase in the volume of water in the upper parts causing minor mudslides. With the flood water this sediments are coming in the lower parts of valley where due to less river current its blocking the river bed causing the flood conditions to deteriorate further even without significant rainfall in a area. District like Dibrugarh, Tinsukia, Lakhimpur, Golaghat, Jorhat,  Sivasagar Majuli Dhubri, Kokrajhar, Bongaigaon, Barpeta, Goalpara, Kamrup, Nalbari like this will be under main threat along with the capital city Guwahati. The Government has opened nearly 300 relief camp in the view of this situations with more than 50 thousands people taking shelter in it.

 Some improvement expected in the flood situations after the middle of the month, although lower Assam will continue to see heavy rainfall activities possibly in the entire month. 

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