10 more die in northeast India floods

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GUWAHATI, (India), Sept 16 (AFP): Ten more people died overnight in India's Assam state, as the death toll from floods across South Asia continued to mount with millions of people displaced, officials said Sunday. Large swathes of Assam continued to suffer heavy flooding Sunday, with the swirling waters of the main Brahmaputra River flowing above the danger mark in many places.
"The Brahmaputra River and its main tributaries are still in a rising trend," the Central Water Commission said. The river has breached nearly 90 embankments since July.
"Most of the people who died overnight drowned while trying to escape the fury of the floods," the state's relief minister, Bhumidhar Barman, told AFP.
"The situation is still critical in many areas with millions of people lodged at makeshift shelters," he said.
The weather office has forecast more thundershowers over Assam in the next 24 hours.
"This is one of the most prolonged floods in recent years and by far the worst," Assam water resources minister Bharat Narah said.
Assam has been one of the hardest hit by floods in South Asia caused by the June-to-September monsoon, which has been described as the worst in decades, with more than 2,200 people killed by floods and rains in India alone.