Heavy Monsoon Rains Displace Hundreds of Thousands in Northeast India
- Heavy monsoon rains are battering villages in India's northeast.
- Nearly half a million people in 22 districts of Assam have been impacted by flooding.
- Tens of thousands have evacuated to government-run relief camps.
- mudslides triggered by the rains have occurred in Assam and Sikkim states.
- Climate change is contributing to more erratic monsoon rains and worsening floods.