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Assam reels under floods; alert in Orissa

New Delhi: The Army on Monday was called out to rescue marooned people in flood-hit Assam. It deployed boats and rafts to transport people taking shelter on roof-tops to relief camps set up in highlands, schools and colleges in the worst-hit Lakhimpur district. The official death count in the State was four.

An alert was sounded in coastal Orissa as incessant rains, due to a deep depression over the northwest Bay of Bengal, about 250 km from Balasore coast, claimed one life in Mayurbhanj district.

Six persons were killed in separate incidents in Uttar Pradesh due to heavy rainfall since Sunday, taking the toll of rain-related deaths to 12.

A woman drowned and five houses were damaged in Doda and Reasi districts of Jammu and Kashmir following heavy rains and flash floods. Landslips triggered by rains struck en route the Vaishnodevi shrine, damaging several electric poles and disrupting power in some areas of the Katra belt.

Moderate to heavy rainfall continued to lash most parts of Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh. A woman and her son died in a house collapse on Sunday night in Jalandhar. — PTI

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