‘It was a tsunami’: Floods leave death trail in India’s Assam
Assam, India – Debiram Panika, a 37-year-old daily wage labourer from northeastern India’s Assam state, would speak to his wife and two daughters on video calls every day from Dimapur, a town in neighbouring Nagaland state where he worked. But when his phone rang at about 11am on July 19, there was panic in the voice of his 30-year-old wife, Dipika.
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- Fact 1: Assam, India – Debiram Panika, a 37-year-old daily wage labourer from northeastern India’s Assam state, would speak to his wife and two daughters on video calls every day from Dimapur, a town in neighbouring Nagaland state where he worked.
- Fact 2: But when his phone rang at about 11am on July 19, there was panic in the voice of his 30-year-old wife, Dipika.
- Fact 3: India’s severe monsoon season causes more than 100 deaths since July On huge river island in India’s Assam, annual floods threaten local arts ‘Nowhere else to go’: In India’s Assam, frequent floods hit river islanders “I could only see my wife telling me on the video call, ‘This is it for us.
- Fact 4: Incessant rains between July 18 and July 20 submerged the region and the neighbouring Naga Hills of Nagaland.
Assam, India – Debiram Panika, a 37-year-old daily wage labourer from northeastern India’s Assam state, would speak to his wife and two daughters on video calls every day from Dimapur, a town in neighbouring Nagaland state where he worked. But when his phone rang at about 11am on July 19, there was panic in the voice of his 30-year-old wife, Dipika.
India’s severe monsoon season causes more than 100 deaths since July On huge river island in India’s Assam, annual floods threaten local arts ‘Nowhere else to go’: In India’s Assam, frequent floods hit river islanders “I could only see my wife telling me on the video call, ‘This is it for us. We are going to die,’ before the call was disconnected,” Panika recalled, speaking to Al Jazeera. It was the last time they spoke.
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Original source: Al Jazeera
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