More than 100 people have died in flooding across India's Assam state this year, the worst in about six decades, as heavy monsoon rains and rapid river rises caught residents without adequate warning. Experts attribute the increasingly destructive floods to climate change intensifying rainfall, combined with sand mining, deforestation, wetland loss and over-reliance on embankments. They call for early warning systems, scientific risk mapping and restoration of natural water-absorption capacity through forests and floodplains rather than continued spending on flood-control structures alone.
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