Samudra Gupta Kashyap GUWAHATI, SEPTEMBER 7: With the rain gods taking a holiday on Sunday after a gap of nearly a month, the overall flood situation in Assam looked slightly better though nearly 14 lakh people across the state continued to reel under water, with the Brahmaputra and several of its tributaries flowing above the red mark at several points. 33,700 people altogether, have been evacuated to safer places by the authorities with the Army providing vital back-up with manpower and equipment, while 20,350 people continued to be accommodated in 134 relief camps across the state. Five teams of the National Disaster Reaction Force (NDRF), comprising about 190 personnel, continued to be deployed at Hailakandi, Kamrup, Dhubri and Dhemaji districts to assist marooned people. Official sources said that the Brahmaputra was flowing at least one metre above the danger level in Dibrugarh, posing serious threat to the upper Assam industrial town. The water level, however, is expected to go below the red mark in the next two days provided there are no more rains. The river was also flowing above the danger zone at Nimatighat (Jorhat), as were the Kopili and Puthimari, both tributaries of the Brahmaputra. The water level has remarkably subsided in the world-famous Kaziranga National Park with divisional forest officer Dibyadhar Gogoi saying that it has gone down by about a foot since Saturday. Nonetheless, the national park has lost six rhinos over the past 10 days due to the floods