Guwahati, Jul 24 (PTI) The flood situation in Assam was extremely critical on Friday as the toll rose to 61 with 14 more fatalities, even as 7.05 lakh people remained affected across nine districts, an official bulletin said.
The Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA), in the bulletin issued on Friday night, stated that 14 people lost their lives in the deluge in the last 24 hours. Seven people, including two women, drowned in flood waters in Charaideo district, while six people, including one woman, died in Sivasagar and one in Jorhat, it said.
With the fresh fatalities, the total number of deaths in this year’s floods increased to 61.
More than 7,05,100 people were affected in Charaideo, Dhemaji, Dibrugarh, Golaghat, Hojai, Jorhat,
Karbi Anglong, Nagaon and Sivasagar districts, it said.
Sivasagar was the worst-hit district with nearly 3.5 lakh people affected, followed by Charaideo (1.9 lakh) and Jorhat (1.3 lakh).
Over 7.21 lakh people were affected across 11 districts on Thursday.
The ASDMA said the administration was running 363 relief camps and relief distribution centres in seven districts, taking care of 1,15,205 displaced people.
Multiple agencies like Army, NDRF, SDRF, Fire & Emergency Service, police and civil agencies rescued around 1,000 people from different parts of Jorhat and Sivasagar, it added.
A total of 2,109.84 quintals of rice, 383.93 quintals of dal, 129.91 quintals of salt and 9,646.08 litres of mustard oil were distributed among the flood victims in the last 24 hours.
At present, 856 villages are under water and 56,606.78 hectares of crop areas have been damaged across Assam, the ASDMA said.
Embankments, roads, bridges and other infrastructure have been damaged by flood waters in different districts of the state.
Dikhou River at Sivasagar, Dhansiri at Nanglamuraghat, Dhansiri at Numaligarh and Kushiyara at Sribhumi were flowing above the danger level.
On account of widespread flooding, 3,34,020 domestic animals and poultry have been affected across the state. PTI TR TR ACD
