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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Assam gets 62% above normal pre-monsoon rain. Floods made worse by dams, say locals -Rokibuz Zaman

Assam gets 62% above normal pre-monsoon rain. Floods made worse by dams, say locals -Rokibuz Zaman

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published Published on May 24, 2022   modified Modified on May 24, 2022

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Residents of Hojai and Nagaon districts said a dam upstream caused the waters of the Kopili river to swell abruptly.

For at least a week, all of Janghal Block village in Assam’s Hojai district was under water. After heavy pre-monsoon rains, the nearby Kopili river – a tributary of the Brahmaputra – had been in full spate. On May 15, the river waters entered the village.

As it flooded homes, residents of the village were forced to flee. Part of the only road connecting Janghal Block to the outside world was washed away.

With much of the road swallowed by the waters of the Kopili river, the only way into the village was by boat. On May 20, Scroll.in took a boat to meet 40 families huddled together in a panchayat office.

“We could not move out a single thing,” said 35-year-old Jubeda Begum. “The water entered our house very fast. To her nine-member family, the panchayat is home until they can return to their ravaged house three kilometres away.

“Floodwaters entered my home on May 15 and it is still six feet under the water,” said 45-year-old Ajoba Khatun. She and her family had been evacuated by their neighbour. “We could have died if he had not come to our rescue with his small country boat.”

Janghal block village is only one of the 3,652 villages across Assam that have been swept by pre-monsoon floods this month. Over nine lakh people have been affected by floods and landslides in 33 out of Assam’s 35 districts. As of May 22, 24 people had died.

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Scroll.in, 24 May, 2022, https://scroll.in/article/1024610/in-assam-unusual-pre-monsoon-rains-and-human-activity-make-a-deadly-combination


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