GUWAHATI (India) More than 500,000 people have fled their homes in India's north-eastern state of Assam to escape heavy floods triggered by pre-monsoon rains that drowned seven, the authorities said yesterday, as they warned the situation could worsen.
One of the world's largest rivers, the Brahmaputra which flows into India and neighbouring Bangladesh from Tibet, burst its banks in Assam over the last three days, inundating more than 1,500 villages.
Torrential rains lashed most of the rugged state, and the downpour continued yesterday, with more forecast over the next two days.
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