Bridge In Assam's Tamulpur Gets Washed Away Due To Heavy Rain And Flood, Situation Grim

As incessant rainfall continues in parts of Assam, a bridge in Tamulpur got washed away on Friday. The flood-situation remains to be grim.

Image of the affected bridge in Tamulpur's Kumarikata area ( Image Source :Twitter/@ANI )

A bridge in Assam's Tamulpur got washed away on Friday as incessant rain in parts of Assam continues. The flood situation in parts of the state remains to be grim. A person lost his life on Thursday in the floods in the Udalguri district. The flood has so far affected approximately five lakh people across 12 districts in the state, an official bulletin said. Till Wednesday, nearly 1.2 lakh people were affected across 10 districts. According to the daily flood report of the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA), Barpeta is the worst hit with over 3,25,600 people suffering, followed by Nalbari with more than 77,700 people and Lakhimpur with around 25,700 people suffering.

News agency ANI shared a visual from Tamulpur's Kumarikata showing a bridge being washed away bridge with Tamulpur locals standing on it. 

#WATCH | Assam: Due to flood and heavy rainfall, a bridge was washed away in Tamulpur's Kumarikata area pic.twitter.com/C2PPucF61C

— ANI (@ANI) June 23, 2023

The death on Thursday marked the first official record of death on account of flood this year, an ASDMA official said.

The report said over 4,95,700 people are hit due to the floods in Baksa, Barpeta, Chirang, Darrang, Dhubri, Dibrugarh, Kamrup, Kokrajhar, Lakhimpur, Nalbari, Sonitpur and Udalguri districts.

According to ASDMA, at present, 1,366 villages have been submerged under waters and 14,091.90 hectares of crop areas have been damaged across Assam.

So far, Paramilitary forces, NDRF, SDRF, Fire and Emergency Services (F&ES), civil administrations, NGOs, and locals have rescued 561 persons from different places. The administration has been operating 83 relief camps in seven districts, where 14,035 persons have taken shelter, and running 79 relief distribution centres in eight districts.

According to ASDMA, massive erosions have been observed in districts such as Barpeta, Sonitpur, Bongaigaon, Dhubri, Dibrugarh, Golaghat, Kamrup, Morigaon, Nalbari, Sivasagar, and Udalguri. Incidents of landslides have also been reported in Dima Hasao and Karimganj due to heavy rainfall. The flood waters have damaged embankments, roads, bridges, and other infrastructure in Udalguri, Sonitpur, Darrang, Bongaigaon, Chirang, Dhubri, Goalpara, Kamrup, Karimganj, Kokrajhar, Nagaon, Nalbari and Barpeta.