Guwahati: A two-and-a-half year-old boy and two women have died here since last night in landslides triggered by torrential rain.

Indira Devi Dorjee, 59, died at Sankaradeb Nagar in Jorabat, on the Assam-Meghalaya border, after an adjacent wall collapsed on her house when she was taking dinner around 11pm. "It was raining cats and dogs. The wall collapsed and fell on her house," a neighbour said.

Rakhi Suvedi, 22, and her two-and-a-half-year-old son were critically injured when a huge lump of earth rolled down from a hill and crushed their house at Hastinapur in the Nine Mile area last night. Both died on the way to hospital.

At Twelve Mile, a massive wall collapsed on four goods vehicles. The drivers and handymen were not inside the vehicle at the time.

The Kamrup (metro) district administration said in a statement that it had earlier asked the residents of Hastinapur to shift to safer locations. "Those who died in Hastinapur were living on government land," it added.

The administration has announced Rs 4 lakh to the next to kin of those who died in landslide.

Hundreds of vehicles were stranded on the Khanapara-Jorabat stretch of National Highway 37 last night as water flowing down from Meghalaya hills submerged the highway knee-deep. NH 37 is the only road connecting Guwahati with Upper Assam at Jorabat.

There was no electricity in many areas of the city for more than 10 hours, making it impossible for residents to operate water pumps resulting in drinking water crisis.

Another torrential rain triggered flash floods on Friday. Many parts of the city, including Anil Nagar, Nabin Nagar, Lakhimi Nagar, R.G. Baruah Road, Panjabari Road and under Bhangagarh flyover, were under knee-deep water.