Monsoon rains kill at least 30 in India’s north-east


Residents commuting in cycle rickshaws through a flooded street after heavy rains in Guwahati, in India's Assam state on May 31, 2025. - Photo: AFP

GUWAHATI, (India): Flash floods and landslides after torrential monsoon rain over the last two days killed at least 30 people in India’s north-east, officials said on Sunday (June 1).

State disaster management officials said eight people died in Assam, and nine in Arunachal Pradesh, many of them in landslides as earth loosened by the water slumped into the valley below.

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