GUWAHATI, India: Heavy rain continued to trigger flood and landslides in India’s north and north-east, killing at least 11 people and affecting hundreds of thousands, officials from two affected states said on Tuesday (Jul 2).
In India’s most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, which has been hit by torrential rain, nine people died in rain-related incidents in the last 24 hours, an official bulletin said.
Two people died on Monday in the north-eastern state of Assam, which has been hit by a second wave of flooding since Jun 16, affecting more than 600,000 people in 19 districts, and displacing more than 8,000, a state disaster management statement said.
Kaziranga National Park in Assam – home to nearly 2,200 one-horned rhinos, or two-thirds of their world population – is also underwater, with more than half of its 233 camps flooded, drowning four hog deer, officials said.
“The flood water has now entered my house. The water has damaged my paddy and crops. I have a family of five and I have to take shelter here. If the situation worsens, I will lose my house,” Faizul Islam, a local resident told news agency ANI, in which Reuters has a minority stake.