Kosi Embankment

Around 40,000 people of three dozen panchayats in Katihar district have been affected by a breach in Madheli link embankment due to heavy pressure of the swollen Ganga and Kosi rivers.

Two days ago, Misrana Khatoon and her family, residents of Bihar's Ghuran village, made it to the eastern Kosi embankment in Supaul district. They are among the 70,000 people the Bihar government has evacuated in anticipation of a flood in the Kosi river.

With the danger of flood looming large in the Kosi belt along Bihar-Nepal border, the Bihar government on Sunday ordered forcible evacuation of people living in the space between the river and its embankments in nine districts of the state.

The Bihar government has issued a high alert and evacuated 20,000 people living along the embankment of the Kosi River in four districts as a 10-metre high wall of water is expected to sweep down the river from Nepal soon, officials said.

Bihar government has ordered immediate evacuation of people living along the embankment of the Kosi river in four districts as a 10-metre high wall of water is expected to sweep down the river from Nepal by this evening or tonight, officials said.

Around 40,000 people of three dozen panchayats in Katihar district have been affected by a breach in Madheli link embankment due to heavy pressure of the swollen Ganga and Kosi rivers.

Two days ago, Misrana Khatoon and her family, residents of Bihar's Ghuran village, made it to the eastern Kosi embankment in Supaul district. They are among the 70,000 people the Bihar government has evacuated in anticipation of a flood in the Kosi river.

With the danger of flood looming large in the Kosi belt along Bihar-Nepal border, the Bihar government on Sunday ordered forcible evacuation of people living in the space between the river and its embankments in nine districts of the state.

The Bihar government has issued a high alert and evacuated 20,000 people living along the embankment of the Kosi River in four districts as a 10-metre high wall of water is expected to sweep down the river from Nepal soon, officials said.

Bihar government has ordered immediate evacuation of people living along the embankment of the Kosi river in four districts as a 10-metre high wall of water is expected to sweep down the river from Nepal by this evening or tonight, officials said.