Even as Assam continued to be deluged with more rain, two people were killed in a massive landslide followed by incessant rain in Guwahati on Thursday.
A 12-year-old girl, Marium Begum, was killed in South Sarania near Gandhibasti area when a rock rolled on her house in Sarania Hills.
Another person, Manik Chandra Rabha, was killed in the same locality in another landslide. He was a preacher in a local temple
Police and NDRF teams are engaged in relief operations while the district administration has advised three families in Noonmati Hills to leave their homes immediately as landslides were feared.
“A team from the soil conservation department has surveyed the place and found it to be dangerous,” said Kamrup Met Deputy Commissioner M Angamatthu.
The city of Guwahati is dotted with 18 hills, which become vulnerable with the onset of monsoon.
In Assam, over 1.22 lakh people are affected by flash floods; six districts of the state are still flood ravaged. River Brahmaputra is flowing above the danger mark in Jorhat and Dhubri.
Published 14 July 2016, 19:40 IST