The skies opened on June 28 — and by the time they closed, entire communities in Arunachal Pradesh’s Nari-Koyu region had been swallowed by floodwaters, mud, and silence.
Heavy rains triggered massive floods, cloudbursts, and relentless landslides across the 36-Nari-Koyu Assembly Constituency, leaving a trail of destruction that officials say is still being fully counted. Bridges are gone. Roads are buried. And hundreds of families across more than a dozen villages are completely cut off from the outside world.
Bridges Washed Away, Villages Locked In
At least six major bridges collapsed or were severely damaged in the disaster — the Reme RCC Bridge, Koyu RCC Bridge, Sijo RCC Bridge, Sido Bridge, and Doge RCC Bridge among them. These weren’t just infrastructure. They were lifelines. With landslides piling onto blocked roads, villages like Lipin, Mane, Tene, Sipu, Kakki, Koyu, Rotte, Kadu, Rina, Sido, Korang, and Tabi Ripo are now islands of distress, cut off from emergency response teams who are still struggling to reach them. When the rain keeps falling and your only road out is buried under a hill, every hour feels longer than it should.
Fields, Homes, and Livelihoods Gone
The damage runs deep — not just in concrete and steel but in soil and sweat. Hundreds of wet rice cultivation fields, orange orchards, arecanut plantations, fish ponds, and irrigation canals have been washed clean off the earth. Homes were partially submerged. Drinking water pipelines snapped. Electricity poles toppled. Schools and health facilities sustained serious damage. These are not statistics. These are entire seasons of work, wiped out in a single night of rain.
Kadu and Korang Bear the Worst
In Kadu village, the scale of loss is staggering. Houses are damaged, roads are inaccessible, and local authorities report that nearly 1,000 cattle and goats were swept away by floodwaters. That alone can financially devastate a farming family for years. In Korang village, the critical Rema Bridge — which serves as a vital link between East Siang and Lower Siang districts — was so badly hit that it has been declared unsafe for use. Two districts, now effectively disconnected.
People Are Asking: Where Is the Help?
Village leaders and panchayat members have raised urgent appeals — restore the roads and bridges, send financial relief, deploy heavy machinery to clear landslides, and restore power and drinking water immediately. Officials confirm that assessment and rescue work is underway, but the continuous rainfall and blocked access routes are making every step slower. The state government says it is monitoring the situation closely. For the people still stranded, monitoring is not enough.
When an entire region is cut off after a disaster like this, the real test isn’t just the rescue — it’s whether the government’s response moves as fast as the floodwaters did.
— Naitik
Abotani TV
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