GUWAHATI: At least 60 people have died of malaria and encephalitis in India's flood-hit Assam over the past month as fresh rains brought the number of displaced to 70,000, officials said yesterday.
Fifty-four had died of malaria and six from Japanese encephalitis in areas lashed by monsoon rains and floods since early June, P.C. Bhattacharyya, Assam Malaria Programme Officer, said.
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