DEVASTATING FLOODS IN ASSAM STATE, INDIA June 28, 2012 More lectures at Disasters Supercourse - http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/collections/collection52.htm Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, University of North Carolina, USA
The Brahmaputra River overflowed during monsoon rains over the past week, flooding more than 2,000 villages and destroying homes in the northeast of the country
FLOOD: ASSAM STATE; JUNE 28, 2012
WILD BUFFALO GOING TO HIGHER GROUND; JUNE 28
STRANDED IN NAELENI VILLAGE: JUNE 28
SOME OF THE 500,000 EVACUEES: JUNE 29
ELDERLY AND YOUNG EVACUEES: JUNE 29
HOMELESS BULUT VILLAGE FAMILY: JUNE 30
PUMPING DRINKING WATER: BULUT VILLAGE; JUNE 30
WORST FLOODING IN RECENT HISTORY Ninety-five dead Over 2 million homeless. Half a million evacuees are living in relief camps with disease prone conditions Damaging landslides hindered relief operations