At least eight people have died in floods and mudslides triggered by heavy rains in India's remote northeast region, officials said Tuesday according to the Associated Press. Several railway stations were not working because of floods, said Nazreen Ahmed, a senior administrative official in Assam's Dima Hasao district. He said that nearly 200,000 people in the district were cut from the rest of the state, as roads and bridges leading to it were either blocked by landslides or washed away. The army deployed helicopters to help with rescue efforts. Officials said four people were killed on Monday following heavy rains and mudslides in the region's frontier state of Arunachal Pradesh. Two others died when their houses on a small hillock caved in the state's capital Itanagar, and two road construction workers were killed due to mudslides at another location. Four other people were reported killed in the neighboring Assam state. The Indian Meteorological Department forecast very heavy to extremely heavy rain in the region for the next four days.
