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Flood deaths in India's Assam state rise to 94 GUWAHATI, India, Monday (Reuters) Rescuers pulled the bodies of six people, three children among them, from flooded fields in India's northeastern state of Assam on Monday, taking to 94 the death toll from flash floods, an official said. More than 100,000 people have been left homeless in the new flooding in Assam, which has still to recover from a monsoon deluge that hit millions in South Asia this summer. Soldiers in rubber boats rescued several people who had taken shelter on hillocks in the worst-affected district, Goalpara, 110 km (68 miles) from the state's commercial centre, Guwahati. "The flash floods have left a trail of destruction in Goalpara and we have had to deploy the army," said district official Anil Mazumdar. The flooding was triggered after waters poured into the paddy-growing district from hills in the neighbouring state of Meghalaya after four days of heavy rains in the thickly-forested northeast since Thursday. In neighbouring Bangladesh, at least 40 people were killed and several hundred injured in storms last week that damaged many homes. More than 2,000 people were killed in Bangladesh and northeast India and millions made homeless in earlier monsoon floods that began in June. |
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