Guwahati, July 27 (TIWN) One more person died in Assam's Golaghat district, taking the death toll to 103, even as the overall flood situation in the state further improved on Monday, officials said.

While 22.34 lakh people in 2,026 villages across 22 of the state’s 33 districts still remained affected by the floods, triggered by heavy rains, the number has come down since Friday when over 28 lakh people in 2,543 villages in 26 of the 33 districts were hit, officials said.

A total of 109,236 hectares of crop area is still inundated, but the area has come down from 122,573 hectares as on July 24.

However, officials said that five major rivers flowing down from neighbouring Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya, including the Brahmaputra, are in a state of spate in seven districts.

Forest and Disaster Department officials also said that at least 132 wild animals have died due to the floods and 162 have been rescued, even as over 80 per cent of the 884 sq km Kaziranga National Park remained inundated. The animals that have died in the annual monsoon flood include 14 rhinos, 98 hog deer, eight wild boars, five wild buffaloes, three porcupines and two swamp deer.

The officials said that not only the Kaziranga National Park, located on edge of the eastern Himalayan biodiversity hotspots of Golaghat and Nagaon districts, but the Manas, R.G. Orang and Tinsukia national parks, and the Pabitora and Tinsukia wildlife sanctuaries were also affected and many wild animals have perished.