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Deputy Commissioner of East Siang district, Duly Kamduk and officials of the Water Resources department are keeping a constant watch on the flow of the Siang river, while the National
Disaster Response Force (NDRF) team has arrived, officials said. In East Siang district, many people living near the banks of the Siang river have been evacuated to safer locations as a
precautionary measure, they said. Arunchal Pradesh Health and Family Welfare Minister Alo Libang, who is also the MLA of Yingkiong constituency in East Siang district, said the water level
of the Siang river had risen at around 11 pm Friday night, but started receding after some time. The minister said the officials were constantly monitoring the water levels of the river. The
reason cited behind the landslide was "natural causes". Yaluzangbu river is called Siang when it enters Arunachal Pradesh and Brahmaputra in Assam. Ji had said the Hydrological
Bureau of Tibet Autonomous Region has begun to share with the Indian side hydrological information every hour, such as the water level and flow rate at the Nuxia hydrological station and the
temporary hydrological station downstream of the barrier lake. _(Published in arrangement with PTI)_