Surrounded By Flood Waters, How Villagers Are Coping In Assam | Read

Name: Surrounded By Flood Waters, How Villagers Are Coping In Assam
Uploaded: Thu, 06 Jul 2017 09:14:58 +0530
Duration: T00H01M57S
Description: In a rickety raft made of banana plant trunk, 16-year-old Yashmina Khatun and her siblings rowed for 10 miles to fetch drinking water to their hut. Their village Balimukh in Assam's Morigaon district, about 60 km away from Guwahati, is submerged in flood waters from an overflowing Brahmaputra and Kolong river.

PUBLISHED ON: July 6, 2017 | Duration: 1 min, 57 sec

In a rickety raft made of banana plant trunk, 16-year-old Yashmina Khatun and her siblings rowed for 10 miles to fetch drinking water to their hut. Their village Balimukh in Assam's Morigaon district, about 60 km away from Guwahati, is submerged in flood waters from an overflowing Brahmaputra and Kolong river.