NEW DELHI, India, July 21 (NNN-PTI) – The combined death toll in India’s flood-affected states of Bihar and Assam has reached around 150, official sources from the two states said.
Over 11.5 million people have been adversely affected in these two states, and many lost all their belongings.
While around 100 people have so far died in eastern Bihar, as many as 50 people have died in north-eastern Assam, over the past one week.
Over 6.6 million people have been affected across 12 major flood-hit districts.
As many as 125,000 people, who lost all their belongings in the ravaging floods, have been put in relief camps, set up in safer areas, an official in the state government said.
According to an official in the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA), the death toll in the state has reached 50. A total of 11 persons died in the past 24 hours, including five in Dhubri district, and three each in Barpeta and Morigaon districts of the state.– NNN-PTI
