Thousands evacuated over flood fears in Bihar

Authorities in India have evacuated 60,000 people in the northern state of Bihar amid fears of flash floods from Nepal, officials say.
Water levels in the Kosi river, which begins in Nepal, have risen steeply. A landslide there Saturday killed 19 and left scores missing.
Officials say a huge amount of water has accumulated in a lake-like formation on the Nepal side.
Nearly 400 died in Bihar in 2008 after the Kosi burst its banks in Nepal.
Officials said Saturday's landslide had created a mud wall that was blocking the Sunkoshi river which flows downstream into the Kosi.
On Sunday, the Nepalese army carried out controlled explosions to knock down part of the earth wall, allowing some water to flow out but much of it remained trapped.
Officials said the situation in Bihar was "not alarming" but this water could inundate villages and farms if the dam across the border suddenly broke.
"It would affect a large part of the state and may hit hundreds of thousands of people," news agency AFP quoted Vyasji Mishra, principal secretary of Bihar's disaster management department, as saying.