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STORY: Women in shelters in Morigaon district struggle to make ends meet as the burden of cooking meals and looking after their children fall on their shoulders. Losing agricultural patches, which is the main source of livelihood, to the all-engulfing floods only heightened their misery.

Fever and skin diseases are on the rise, said flood victims living in a school building.

Floods and landslides triggered by incessant rains have killed at least 166 people in the state so far, government data showed.

Extreme weather in South Asia has become more frequent in recent years and environmentalists warn that climate change could lead to even more serious disasters.