With floods continuing to wreak havoc from Sadiya to Dhubri and Dhemaji to Barak Valley and reports of fresh breaches in embankments coming in, thousands of people have become homeless in the State due to the current wave of floods. In the last 24 hours, 4 people died in Dibrugarh and Barpeta districts and the total death toll has reached 14 in the State. About 3,83,792 people have been affected in 17 districts in the floods. The rescue teams from the Air Force, Army, National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and the district administrations have been pressed into service to rescue the marooned people. Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, who is now in the US, asked State officials on Tuesday to rescue the marooned people on a war footing. Gogoi asked officials to initiate timely action to evacuate people from the vulnerable areas in view of the rising water levels of the Brahmaputra and its tributaries. He also instructed the ministers to monitor the rescue and relief operations in the flood affected districts and further directed the Water Resources Department to take all possible measures to ensure protection of embankments. Official sources said that the Brahmapurtra had been flowing above the danger levels at many places including Tezpur, Guwahati, Goalpara and Dhubri districts. The authorities had prohibited the movement of passenger ferries and boats in the Brahmaputra, added the sources. In the last 24 hours, four embankments were breached in Dhemaji, Baska and Sivasagar districts. “Majuli was cut off on Monday as the Jorhat district administration ordered stop to running of passenger ferries and boats between Nimatighat and Majuli due to the rising water level of the river,” said an official. The NDRF has joined rescue operations in Majuli and in some areas of Sadiya subdivision in Tinsukia district. Helicopters were used in Tinsukia district for distributing relief materials to the flood victims. Floods have also affected the Dibru Saikhowa National Park in Tinsukia district and the Kaziranga National Park in Golaghat district. Surging flood waters have also snapped road connection between many places in upper Assam. Reports also said that water levels of the rivers like the Kushiara, Katakhal, Barak, Sangkosh, Beki, Manas, Pagaladia, Puthimari, Kopili, Jiabhoroli, Dikhow, Subansiri and others were rising. The overall flood situation remains unchanged in Dibrugarh district with the waters of the Brahmaputra and Buri Dehing flowing above the danger levels. In Rohmoria, an erosion prone area in Dibrugarh district, the swollen Brahmaputra has inundated more than 15 villages including Bogoritolia, Kachuoni, Oakland, Panbari, Konwar Gaon, Major Pana, Chamonipar, Chengdhora Gaon, Nakoichera Gaon, Liting, Balichapori and Mohmora. Meanwhile, the opposition Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) criticized the Chief Minister for currently staying in the US when the entire State is reeling under devastating floods. The AGP has urged the government to speed up the relief and rescue operations.