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"> Thousands marooned by floods in northeast India
> Afp, Guwahati
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> Flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains have washed away
> thousands of homes and displaced more than 50,000 people in India's
> northeastern state of Assam, officials said yesterday.
>
> A government spokesman said the state's eastern district of
Lakhimpur
> was the worst hit, with an estimated 50 villages inundated by flooding
> that
> began Saturday.
>
> "The situation is critical with many parts of the district under
> waist-deep water," Lakhimpur police chief SA Karim told AFP by
telephone.
>
> A government bulletin said the Brahmaputra river, which flows
through
> Tibet, India and Bangladesh before emptying in the Bay of Bengal, and
its
> tributaries were flowing above the danger mark in at least six places.
>
> A first wave of monsoon flooding in Assam last month killed eight
> people and displaced 400,000 others, most of them also in Lakhimpur
> district.
>
> "Thousands of people are taking shelter in make****ft camps and on
> embankments and other raised platforms," Karim said, adding that
> authorities
> were providing them with food.
>
> The swirling waters of the 2,906-kilometre (1,816-mile) Brahmaputra
> river have been treacherous across the district, breaching more than a
> dozen
> embankments and sweeping away road bridges and stretches of highways.
>
> Authorities said a railway bridge was also washed away, forcing the
> suspension of train services in the area.
>
> Every year the monsoon causes the river -- one of Asia's longest --
> to
> flood in Assam, a state of 26 million people.
>
> In 2004, Assam saw some of its worst floods, which killed at least
> 200
> people and displaced almost half the state's population.
>
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