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Flood plays havoc with Asom

CM orders probe into breach of embankment Staff Reporter & UNI GUWAHATI, Sept 1: Floods continued to wrack havoc in Asom where the Puthimari river overtopped NH 31, the lifeline of the Northeast, snapping road communication. Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, along with Water Resource Minister Bharat Chandra Narah and Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) president Bhubaneswar Kalita, visited Rangiya. Gogoi ordered an inquiry into the breach in the newly constructed embankment along the Puthimari river.