Northeast India floods kill 121, displace 6  million                                           

Six million people have been displace and 121  have been killed in one of the worst floods in decades in India's northeast.  Meanwhile this year, the monsoon rainfall is running at 31 percent below the  normal annual average.

Saturday, July 7th  2012, 03:38 PM

The death toll from heavy monsoon rains which have caused massive flooding in  India's northeast has risen to more than 120, with six million forced to flee  their homes, officials said Saturday.

The weather office forecast that more rains during the next 24 hours would  lash the region, which is suffering from its worst flooding in recent years.

Assam state has been hardest hit by the annual rains with the mighty  Brahmaputra river overflowing its banks, while flooding has also struck the  nearby states of Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur and Meghalaya.

"So far a total of 121 people have died in separate incidents in which 105  were drowned while trying to escape the gushing waters and 16 more were killed  in landslides caused by heavy rains," an Assam government statement said.

An estimated six million people have been forced to leave their homes to  escape the floodwaters and find higher ground, a separate Central Water  Commission bulletin said.

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