Death toll from heavy flooding in India's northeast rises to 73

A boy carries a cot through flood waters at Krishnai village in Goalpara district of northeastern Assam state, India, Wednesday, Sept.24, 2014.Landslides and flash floods triggered by two days of heavy rain killed dozens of people in India's remote northeast. In Assam's worst-hit district of Goalpara, 90 villages have been submerged and more than 150,000 people have been asked to leave their homes for higher ground. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath) (The Associated Press)

Indian villagers wrap on a boat the dead bodies of a woman and a child found in flood waters at Balbala village in Goalpara district of northeastern Assam state, India, Wednesday, Sept.24, 2014.Landslides and flash floods triggered by two days of heavy rain killed dozens of people in India's remote northeast. In Assam's worst-hit district of Goalpara, 90 villages have been submerged and more than 150,000 people have been asked to leave their homes for higher ground. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath) (The Associated Press)

A man looks a car that got washed away in the flash floods as it lies damaged in a paddy field in Krishnai village in Goalpara district of northeastern Assam state, India, Wednesday, Sept.24, 2014.Landslides and flash floods triggered by two days of heavy rain killed dozens of people in India's remote northeast. In Assam's worst-hit district of Goalpara, 90 villages have been submerged and more than 150,000 people have been asked to leave their homes for higher ground. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath) (The Associated Press)