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In India's most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, which has been
hit by torrential rain, nine people died in rain-related
incidents in the last 24 hours, an official bulletin said.
Two people died on Monday in the north-eastern state of Assam,
which has been hit by a second wave of flooding since June 16,
affecting more than 600,000 people in 19 districts, and
displacing more than 8,000, a state disaster management
statement said.
Kaziranga National Park in Assam - home to nearly 2,200
one-horned rhinos, or two-thirds of their world population - is
also under water, with more than half of its 233 camps flooded,
drowning four hog deer, officials said.
"The flood water has now entered my house. The water has damaged
my paddy and crops. I have a family of five and I have to take
shelter here. If the situation worsens, I will lose my house,"
Faizul Islam, a local resident told news agency ANI, in which
Reuters has a minority stake.
Visuals from ANI showed inundated fields and roads across Assam,
as people moved precious belongings and furniture from their
water-filled homes.
In the northeastern region of neighboring Bangladesh, the flood
situation was worsening rapidly due to continuous rain and
upstream water flow from India, leaving tens of thousands of
people marooned, officials said on Tuesday.
Authorities used loudspeakers in the south-eastern region of
Chittagong to alert residents about the high risk of landslides,
triggered by heavy rains, and offer help in evacuations,
government official Abul Bashar Mohammed Fakruzzaman said.
India's north-east and Bangladesh have been ravaged by floods in
the last two months, leaving millions stranded, with weather
authorities predicting that the situation could worsen.
In Assam's neighbouring state of Arunachal Pradesh, which also
borders China, incessant rains have forced the closure of
schools in its capital Itanagar, till the end of this week,
local officials said.
More rain is predicted for the region over the next three days,
according to the country's weather office.
India's weather department issued warnings on Tuesday for heavy
to extremely heavy rainfall across western, northern and
north-eastern states for the rest of this week.
(Reporting by Tora Agarwala, Jatindra Dash and Ruma Paul,
writing by Ainnie Arif, editing by Shilpa Jamkhandikar and Anil
D'Silva)
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