Floods kill three, maroon 400,000 in NE India People flee floods from monsoon rains in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam even as forest rangers keep patrolling the area for poachers as it is home to the Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary. The park has the second highest concentration of rhinos in the state. \\n\\n\\nhave killed three people and marooned more than 400,000, officials said on Thursday (July 11).\\n\\n"A total of three people, including two in flood-related incidents and one in a landslide, have been killed in Assam so far," an Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) official said.\\n\\nMore than 250 villages have been inundated in the last 24 hours, with 16,370 hectares of paddy fields submerged, the senior official said.\\n\\n 50 percent of the Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary is under flood water. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES