‘It was a tsunami’: Floods leave death trail in India’s Assam
- Assam, India – Debiram Panika, a 37-year-old daily wage labourer from northeastern India’s Assam state, would speak to his wife and two daughters on video calls every day from Dimapur, a town in neighbouring Nagaland state where he worked.
- But when his phone rang at about 11am on July 19, there was panic in the voice of his 30-year-old wife, Dipika.
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- Assam, India – Debiram Panika, a 37-year-old daily wage labourer from northeastern India’s Assam state, would speak to his wife and two daughters on video calls every day from Dimapur, a town in neighbouring Nagaland state where he worked.
- But when his phone rang at about 11am on July 19, there was panic in the voice of his 30-year-old wife, Dipika.
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Sources: Al Jazeera