India calls out army as floods worsen

GUWAHATI: The army was called out for rescue operations Sunday as more than a million people were marooned in northeast India, which has been hit by raging floods, officials said.

“The situation worsened overnight, drowning two more people in western Assam and displacing another 250,000,” Assam’s Relief Minister Bhumidhar Barman said in the state’s largest city Guwahati, adding it brought the total now stranded by the flooding to more than a million. The latest deaths took to 15 the number of people killed in flood-related accidents in the past week in Assam and adjoining Meghalaya as heavy monsoon rains and Himalayan snow melt combined to swell the major Brahmaputra River.