KOLKATA: At least 200 villages in Assam`s worst affected Lakhimpur, Karimganj and Cachar districts have been flooded amid monsoon downpour, throwing normal life out of gear as hundreds of families were forced to leave their homes.

According to government officials, heavy downpour submerged Lakhimpur, Naoboicha and Bihpuria revenue circles while the Kakoio dyke was washed away by swirling Brahmaputra`s tributaries like Ranganadi, Singora, Kakoi, Boginade, Gavaru, Bogolee, Subansiri and Dikmong.

More than 30,000 people were marooned in Lakhimpur, they added.

Normal life was disrupted with hundreds of families in Karimganj and Cachar districts of Barak Valley pushed out of homes, as rivers Barak, Longai and Kushiara remained in spate.

The floodwater from the Dikmong river submerged part of national highway 52 near Harmoti, disrupting road links. In Karimganj, a 100-metre-long barbed-wire fencing along neighbouring Bangladesh border went under water of the Kushiara.

IST:09.50 HRS, June 2010
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