00:12This year's floods have killed 78 people and affected more than 3 lakh across Assam.
00:18More spoke to volunteers working on the ground.
00:20They showed us children trying to dry their notebooks in the sun,
00:26families waiting for relief and villages where almost everything had been swallowed by the flood.
00:31My people are crying. My district is drowning in tears.
00:35People have lost their lives, their houses, their source of income.
00:40With roads submerged, many villages can only be reached by small wooden boats built by locals.
00:45The boat that you mentioned is called bhur in our Assamish language.
00:50And in those remote areas where we can't bring our cars or we can't walk because the depth of water
01:00is still our neck.
01:03The animals we used to farm with, the animals we used to love, we played.
01:14We would be floating as corpses.
01:17And even as people wait for the water to recede, a new worry is emerging.
01:22What happens after the floods leave?
01:24When the water level will be down, diseases will struck and I don't know how my people are going to
01:32deal with that.
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