Half a Million Indians Flee Floods in Northeast Brought by Rain

Half a Million Indians Flee Floods in Northeast Brought by Rain
People disembark a boat after they were evacuated from a flooded village in Nagaon district, in the northeastern state of Assam, India, on May 18, 2022. Anuwar Hazarika/Reuters
Reuters
Updated:

GUWAHATI, India—More than 500,000 people have fled their homes in India’s northeastern state of Assam to escape heavy floods triggered by pre-monsoon rains that drowned seven, authorities said on Wednesday, as they warned the situation could worsen.

One of the world’s largest rivers, the Brahmaputra, which flows into India and neighboring Bangladesh from Tibet, burst its banks in Assam over the last three days, inundating more than 1,500 villages.