The flood fury continued unabated in Assam on Monday with vast areas inundated, communication links cut-off and the death toll rising to 16, official sources said in Guwahati.
The death toll in the current wave of floods rose to 16 from 13 with three more bodies recovered from worst-affected Nalbari district.
The bodies were recovered from Paithalkuchi, Khudrasankara and Raitkuchi areas of the district, which is reeling under heavy floods due to breach in the dam of the Kurisho hydel project in Bhutan.
The Kalanadi bridge communicating Bhutan and Assam has been washed away. The water level of all the rivers in the district are flowing above the danger level and major breaches have occurred in embankments affecting more than 600,000 people.
All rivers flowing down from Bhutan through Udalguri and Darrang districts are in full spate and have cut through embankments inundating large areas.
Heavy rains in Bhutan have caused the Puthimari and other adjoining rivers to inundate large tracts of land in Rangiya
sub-division in Kamrup district.
The other districts affected by the breach in the Bhutan dam are Kokrajhar, Barpeta, Chirang and Bongaigaon.
The Brahmaputra is flowing above the danger level at Dibrugarh, Nematighat, Tezpur and Dhubri and is flowing above
the warning level at Guwahati and Goalpara with a rising trend.
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