Heavy monsoon rains have flooded parts of Bangladesh and India, killing at least 41 people and leaving millions of people stranded as their homes have been submerged, authorities said on Saturday.
At least nine people, including two children, were killed in India’s Assam state, and 2 million others lost their homes in the flood. Two people were reported missing in Hojai and Sonitpur states, Outlook India reported.
The Brahmaputra, one of Asia’s largest rivers, breached its mud embankments, inundating 3,000 villages and croplands in 28 of Assam’s 33 districts. The rain is expected to continue until Sunday.
Assam’s chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said the Water Resources Ministry and Irrigation Department would hasten construction of a new alignment of the mud embankment when the flood water recedes….