IANS/Guwahati

Seven more people have died and over 300,000 are hit in floods in Assam’s Dhemaji and Lakhimpur districts, officials said yesterday.
State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA) officials said floods have upset the lives of people in over 1,000 villages in 15 districts of the state.
One each has died in Lakhimpur, Dhubri, Nalbari, Golaghat and Barpeta and two in Morigaon districts, officials said. They added that floodwaters have affected crops on 90,867 hectares across the state.
The flood situation in Lakhimpur and Dhemaji districts worsened as Subanriri river is in spate due to heavy downpour in neighbouring Arunachal Pradesh.
Jiadhal river has also breached an embankment in Dhemaji district.
District administrations have set up 118 relief camps, providing shelter to 95,922 people in the 15 flood-affected districts - Jorhat, Dibrugarh, Golaghat, Sivasagar, Sonitpur, Nalbari, Barpeta, Bongaigaon, Morigaon, Kamrup, Dhubri, Kokrajhar and Karbi Anglong besides Dhemaji and Lakhimpur.
The flood situation has slightly improved in Dhubri, Kokrajhar and Karbi Anglong districts, the officials said.
SDMA officials said the Brahmaputra and its tributaries are flowing above the danger level at Nematighat, Dhubri and Dibrugarh and the Jai Bharali river has crossed the danger mark at Sonitpur and Kopili while Beki river has breached the red line at Nagaon and in Barpeta district.