Floods triggered by torrential monsoon rains have killed at least 41 people in India’s northeast Assam state, officials said yesterday, as authorities pursued rescue and relief operations. “We have lost 41 precious lives till date and thousands of livestock has been washed away,” Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said in a social media update on the toll from monsoon rains that began in June. Sarma said all agencies, including India’s airforce and personnel from the State Disaster Response Force and National Disaster Response Force were “working round the clock” on relief and rescue operations in Assam. Authorities have set up almost 150 relief camps, where close to 30,000 people are taking shelter in the state, Sarma added. A separate state government statement released late Wednesday said authorities were using “payload drones... to strengthen last-mile delivery of relief materials.”