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The 2022 Silchar Floods were floods that occurred in the state of Assam, India beginning 19 June 2022 as a part of 2022 Assam–Bangladesh floods due to a breach of dyke of the Barak River at Bethkundi. The flooding affected 5.4 million people across 32 districts and caused the deaths of over 200 [2] people across the affected districts.
The 2017 Northeast India floods were caused by overflowing of Brahmaputra river in the state of Assam in July 2017 affecting four Indian states: Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Manipur. [ 26 ] [ 27 ] As of 14 July 2017, at least 85 people were dead [ 28 ] as a result of the flooding and 4 lakh people have been affected and 5,00,000 have ...
In addition, the Assam Rifles rescued 500 stranded civilians from other flooded areas. [6] Flooding from 11-12 July killed 54 people and affected 1.8 million people in 923 villages in Uttar Pradesh. [8] In Himachal Pradesh, flooding and landslides killed 31 people and left 33 missing from 27 June to 16 August. [9]
The flooding was brought on by heavy monsoon showers in the region.Sarbananda Sonowal, the Chief Minister of Assam, told news agency ANI that “People, as well as animals, are being rescued from ...
In India, 97 people have died in flooding in northeast Assam state since May, official figures showed. Large-scale floods in northeast Bangladesh have impacted more than 2 million people.
Due to the floods, the teaching activities of 640 educational institutions in Sylhet have been disrupted. In Sylhet district 55 unions were completely and 15 unions were partially flooded. [28] On 22 May, it was reported that the flood situation in Sylhet had not changed much. There is a shortage of clean water in the flood-hit areas.
2020 Assam floods refers to the significant flood event of the Brahmaputra River in the Indian north-eastern state of Assam and coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic.Initial flooding started in May 2020 due to heavy rainfall affecting 30,000 and destroying crops across 5 districts.
Two people were killed by a landslide caused by flooding in Assam from 17 to 21 of June, which affected up to 100,000 residents in 20 districts. [10] Since 24 June, at least 229 people were killed and 38 others were left missing by flooding in northern India due to monsoon rains, including 105 in July [11] and 81 more in August. [12]