Eight more dead as India’s Assam state reels under floods

Indian army personnel rescue flood-affected villagers on a boat in Jalimura village, west of Gauhati (Anupam Nath/AP)

Massive flooding and mudslides in north-eastern India’s Assam state have claimed eight more lives, officials said on Sunday.

It takes the death toll from weeks of heavy rain that caused one of Asia’s largest rivers to overflow to 62.