C T Online Desk: Monsoon storms in India have killed at least 34 people and unleashed devastating floods that left millions of others stranded, officials said Saturday, reports AFP.
At least 16 people have been killed since Thursday in India’s remote Meghalaya, the state’s chief minister Conrad Sangma wrote on Twitter, after landslides and surging rivers that submerged roads.
Next door in Assam, more than 2.6 million people have been affected by floods after five days of incessant downpours, according to the state’s disaster response agency.
Eighteen people had died in flood waters or landslides around the state since Thursday, the agency reported, with nearly 7,500 people rescued on Saturday by mid-afternoon.
Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma told reporters he had instructed district officials to provide ‘all necessary help and relief’ to those caught in the flooding.
