Authorities provided food and relief supplies to flood victims including airdrops from helicopters, Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said. Nearly 900 villages were submerged and more than 7,000 homes were without electricity, he said. Jatin Gogoi, a 52-year-old farmer from Nazira, said the rising waters swept away his bamboo-walled home and destroyed his livelihood. Flooding on Thursday evening disrupted parts of Guwahati, Assam’s capital with about two million residents, as submerged roads left commuters stranded for hours. A man wades through floodwater near his submerged house in Assam, India (Parikhit Saikia/AP) (Parikhit Saikia/AP Photo/Parikhit Saikia)“I had to stay overnight at my office.