Death toll in India floods reaches 112
Wednesday, 1 August 2007
KAZIRANGA, India, July 31 (AFP): The death toll from floods ravaging large parts of eastern and northeastern India climbed to 112 with about seven million people displaced, officials and reports said today.
In the eastern state of Bihar, 62 people died in flood-related incidents as 2.8 million people were displaced, the United News of India reported.
Educational institutions in north Bihar were closed as water entered schools and other administrative buildings, the report said.
The situation in the districts of Sitamarhi, Bhagalpur, Gaya and Madhubani was precarious with people facing a severe shortage of food and water with road and rail transport services badly hit, it added.
In north-eastern Assam state, five people drowned overnight taking the toll to 25, Assam relief and rehabilitation minister Bhumidhar Barman told the news agency.
The 2,906-kilometre (1,816-mile) Brahmaputra river-one of the longest in Asia-also swept into the famed Kaziranga National Park renowned for its endangered one-horned rhinos, drowning a dozen animals, a park official said. No rhinos were killed.
In the eastern state of Bihar, 62 people died in flood-related incidents as 2.8 million people were displaced, the United News of India reported.
Educational institutions in north Bihar were closed as water entered schools and other administrative buildings, the report said.
The situation in the districts of Sitamarhi, Bhagalpur, Gaya and Madhubani was precarious with people facing a severe shortage of food and water with road and rail transport services badly hit, it added.
In north-eastern Assam state, five people drowned overnight taking the toll to 25, Assam relief and rehabilitation minister Bhumidhar Barman told the news agency.
The 2,906-kilometre (1,816-mile) Brahmaputra river-one of the longest in Asia-also swept into the famed Kaziranga National Park renowned for its endangered one-horned rhinos, drowning a dozen animals, a park official said. No rhinos were killed.