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Landslides, floods kill 33 in India

Nearly 1.5m displaced

Agencies
Floods and landslides caused by relentiess rain in northeast India have killed at least 33 people and displaced nearly 1.5 million over the past week, officials said yesterday.
At least 21 people were killed in landslides and another eight were missing
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in Sikkim, said state government spokesman ASTobgay.
In Assam eight people were killed and 20 were missing, police said.
"Eighteen of 27 districts of Assam have been hit by floods with 1.4 million displaced and 11 people drowned in separated incidents in the past week," the Disaster Management agency said in a statement.
The floods, caused by relentless rains, marked the second round of massive flooding in two months to hit India's impoverished northeast and come towards the end of India's June-to-September monsoon season.
Nearly 130 people died and six million were displaced by floods in Assam state in July, reports AFP.
Rescue officials said in the latest floods, at least 2,200 villages had been swamped by overflowing waters from the rain-swollen Brahmaputra River.
Himanta Biswa Sarmah, the health minister of Assam state, told AFP that a "maximum health alert" to avert
outbreaks of diarrhoea or diseases such as typhoid had been declared in the devastated zone.
The annual monsoon provides vital irrigation for India's farmers but also claims many casualties from flooding and landslides.
Officials said flooding victims had been evacuated to temporary shelters on higher ground.
"We've dispatched doctors and paramedics to ensure there is no outbreak of disease," Sarmah said in Guwahati.Assam'slargestcity.
Also, four people were
buried and killed in mudslides in Arunachal Pradesh, police said.
The military and central disaster response teams have launched operations to move people to higher ground by helicopter or in rubber boats. Nearly 100 shelters have been opened to accommodate the displaced.
In July, at least 110 people were killed and more than 400,000 people were left homeless in Assam during floods which Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said were among the worst in recent times.