Floods in India's northeast kill 40; endanger rare one-horned rhinos

A boy rows a makeshift raft outside his submerged house in the flood-affected Kuthori village near Kaziranga National Park in Nagaon district, in the northeastern state of Assam, India, July 11, 2017. REUTERS/Anuwar Hazarika

GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - Floods in northeast India that have killed at least 40 people and displaced nearly 1.5 million have also inundated a national park that is home to the world's largest concentration of one-horned rhinoceros.

The Brahmaputra river, which flows from China down to India and then through Bangladesh, has burst its banks after torrential monsoon rains, swamping more than 2,500 villages in India's Assam state over the past two weeks.