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Assam Floods: No New Deaths, Affected People Down To 68,000

Altogeth🌳er 705 people are taking shelter in four relief camps and three relief distribution centres are operat🗹ional in the flood-hit areas.

Vill💜agers use aᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ boat to move from a flooded area to safer places after rain at a village in Nagaon
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Assam's ﷽flood situation continued to improve as the number of affected people fell to 68,000 to Satur🤪day and no new deaths were reported, according to an official bulleting. 

All major rivers in the state are flowiꦍng below the danger level, as per the bulletin. 

✅With no new deaths reported, the death toll in this year's flood and landslides in the state remained at 38.

The Assam State Disaster Management Authorit꧃y's (ASDMA) daily said 68,590 people are still reeling under waters, down from 69,610 on Friday.

Altogether 705 p♈eople were taking shelter in four relief camps, while three relief distribution centres were operational in the flood-hit areas.

Cachar, Dima Hasao, Kamrup Metropolitan, Mor🎐igaon and Nagaon continued to remain affected by the floods. 

Embankments, roads, bridges and other infrastructure have been damaged by floodwat꧟ers in Cachar, Dima Hasao and Udalguri. The flood and landslides it triggered damaged roads, houses, railway tracks.  

Landslides triggered by tꦉhe flood swept away large tracts of lands from under railway tracks, leading to tracks hanging precariously in the air,ꦕ whose visuals surfaced on social media last month.

Floods and heavy rain also led to two trains being stranded for two days in mid-May in Lumding-Badarpur hill section, leading to the Indian Air Force being deployed to evacuat💙e stranded passengers. 

The Saturday's bulletin said erosions were caused by the different rivers ♏in Dhubri, Nalbari, Sonitpur, Tinsukia and Udalguri dist✨ricts.

(With PTI inputs)