New Delhi, Sept. 11 (PTI): The flood situation in many states of northeast India was grim today following incessant rains with Mizoram deciding to airlift food grains to villages made inaccessible by landslides. In Assam, five persons, including a two-year-old child and two women, were washed away by turbulent waters in five different places since yesterday, taking the toll in the third wave of floods in the state to 14.
The situation was critical in Morigaon, Nagaon, Lakhimpur, Barpeta and Dhubri districts in the Brahmaputra Valley and Cachar, Hailakandi and Karimganj districts in Barak Valley. In Majuli, the world's largest populated riverine island, an alert was sounded following a breach in the embankment of the Matmora river in Dhakuakhana.
In Manipur, over 54,600 households in four valley districts were affected due to breach of embankments of major rivers. Three persons were swept away by flood waters in Thoubal district in the current wave.
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