India – 12 Dead, Homes and Roads Destroyed After Weeks of Flooding in Nagaland

by in Asia, News

Flooding and landslides affected the state of Nagaland in India since late July, 2018.

By early September 48,821 families in 538 villages of 11 districts had been affected. At least 11 people have died.

Nagaland is a mountainous state in northeast India, bordering Myanmar which has also been badly affected by flooding this monsoon.

Local media said that thousands of people in hundreds of villages have been cut-off for weeks after roads were blocked or destroyed by floods and landslides. Relief items are either being air dropped or shipped on smaller vehicles to as far as possible.

Neiphiu Rio, Chief Minister of Nagaland state in India said on 03 September that roads have been damaged at 557 locations. Four bridges have also been destroyed, as well as crops and farmland, including 300 hectares of paddy fields.

The affected districts include Phek, Longleng, Tuensang,Peren, Dimapur, Wokha,Zunheboto, Kiphire, Mokokchung, Mon and Kohima.

India’s Disaster Management Division said that 410 houses have been destroyed. Ten relief camps have been set up for those displaced.

A team from India’s National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) consisting of 38 rescuers and 2 boats was deployed to assist flood victims in Dimapur in mid-August.

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