FLOODS IN INDIA
200 Deaths In One District
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 10 p.m.) CALCUTTA, August 28. Nearly 200 are dead or missing in the north-east India floods, including 125 inhabitants of four villages in the Jalpaiguri subdivision of West Bengal State, who were swept away in floodwaters from the Daldhaka and Diana
rivers. In addition to these people monthlong floods in the states of Assam Bihar, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh have claimed 164 victims. The total death-roll in the East Bengal floods is not known. Indian Air Force planes scanned the flood-devastated Jalpaiguri and Cooch Behar subdivisions for. marooned people, and in Assam an oil company’s helicopters were used in rescue work in addition to rubber dinghies. Meanwhile as the crest of the Brahmaputra floods rushed down towards the Bay of Bengal, engulfing more areas in Assam, bringing fresh threats to East Bengal districts, more rivers in Bihar and North Bengal overflowed their banks.
One report said that the Buridihing and Sessa, which are tributaries of the Brahmaputra, submerged 200 villages. Thirty villages have been flooded by the Bhorali, a tributary of the Brahmaputra, leaving thousands homeless. The Kosi, which is called Bihar’s “river of sorrow,” and the Gandak, have swept more than 1000 square miles. *
The Bangari and three other sister rivers Submerged large areas in the Rabaul subdivision bordering on Nepal for the third time in two months.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27441, 30 August 1954, Page 11
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