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Al Jazeera
Environment
Sadiq Naqvi

‘He never returned’: Widespread misery in India’s flooded Assam

Locals seen on a raft amid floods in Dighali Ati village, Nagaon district, Assam [Sadiq Naqvi/Al Jazeera]

Nagaon, Assam – Over two days, Krishna Bhadra had gone to his flooded house in Nagaon district’s Garmaj village several times to salvage his family’s belongings after floodwaters suddenly roared in last week.

The family of four had taken refuge in a small pavilion of a government building in Nagaon, 122km (76 miles) from the main city of Guwahati in India’s northeastern Assam state.

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