Floods in northeast India kill at least 41
- NEW DELHI: Floods triggered by torrential monsoon rains have killed at least 41 people in India's northeast Assam state, officials said on Thursday (Jul 23), as authorities pursued rescue and relief operations.
- Flood-related disasters are an annual occurrence across India during the monsoon months after the region's long summers, with many parts of the country facing water scarcity and drought.
- "We have lost 41 precious lives till date and thousands of livestock have been washed away," Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said in a social media update on the toll from monsoon rains that bega
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- NEW DELHI: Floods triggered by torrential monsoon rains have killed at least 41 people in India's northeast Assam state, officials said on Thursday (Jul 23), as authorities pursued rescue and relief operations.
- Flood-related disasters are an annual occurrence across India during the monsoon months after the region's long summers, with many parts of the country facing water scarcity and drought.
- "We have lost 41 precious lives till date and thousands of livestock have been washed away," Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said in a social media update on the toll from monsoon rains that bega
Sources: CNA, Al Jazeera