Over 100 wild animals, including 8 rare rhinos, have died in flooded Kaziranga park in Assam.
It is home to the world’s largest population of one-horned rhinos which faces extinction, but this year almost 85% of the park went underwater.
The floods have displaced nearly 4 million and took the lives of at least 190 people in Assam as well as in Nepal.
The Kaziranga park is home to at least 2,400 one-horned rhinos.
Dozens of animals, including deer, buffalo and porcupines, have also died due to the drowning, while others were hit by vehicles as they attempted to escape the floodwaters.
Assam is facing the twin challenge of combating floods and the coronavirus pandemic. Out of 33 districts, 25 remained affected after the current wave of flooding, beginning a fortnight ago.
India is grappling with the novel coronavirus, which has infected nearly 1.1 million people and 26,816 have died from the COVID-19 disease, government data showed on Sunday.
In neighbouring Nepal, the government asked residents along its southern plains on Sunday to remain alert as heavy monsoon rains were expected to pound the Himalayan nation where more than 100 have died in floods and landslides since June, officials said.
