Deaths mount as monsoon crisis continues


Weather woes: A motorcyclist wading through a flooded street after heavy rains in Guwahati, Assam. — AFP

Flash floods and landslides after torrential monsoon rain over the last two days killed at least 30 ­people in India’s northeast, officials said.

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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