GUWAHATI: The flood situation in Assam improved as the number of affected people decreased to 2 lakh in 10 districts, official sources said on Saturday.Two major rivers, including the Brahmaputra, continued to flow above the danger level.The districts reeling under floods are Cachar, Dhemaji, Dhubri, Dibrugarh, Goalpara, Golaghat, Kamrup Metropolitan, Karimganj, Nagaon and Sivasagar.A total of 2.07 lakh people are still affected, as Nagaon remained the worst hit with over 74,000 people affected, followed by Cachar (36,000) and Dhubri (20,000), the sources said.Till Thursday, over 2.72 lakh people were affected by the floods in 11 districts. The total number of people losing their lives in this year’s floods, landslides, storms and lightning strikes stands at 113.
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