Woman Delivers Baby On NDRF Rescue Boat In Flood-Hit Bihar

During search and rescue operations, National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel helped a pregnant women to deliver a baby safely. (Photo: ANI)

A report from Katihar said that railway bridge number 133 in Barsoi-Kisanganj section of Katihar division of North East Frontier Railway has been badly damaged in flood.

East Central Railway (ECR) chief public relations officer Rajesh Kumar said that no train is going beyond Katihar towards the north east as flood waters have inundated the railway tracks.

Principal Secretary of Disaster Management department Pratyay Amrit made another aerial survey of the flood-hit areas.

The death toll in Bihar flood has risen to 56 as 69.81 lakh people have been hit by inundation in 13 districts of the state and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar made his second aerial survey of flood-hit areas on Monday. (Photos: PTI)

The government will leave no stone unturned to help the flood victims, Kumar said and thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for promptly sending the NDRF and Army to the affected areas.

The flood situation caused by incessant rains in Nepal and some districts of north Bihar is grim. The rivers in north Bihar are flowing above the danger level and have caused immense loss and damage, he said.

The special secretary said 1.61 lakh people have been evacuated and taken to safer places. Out of them, 85,949 have been put up in 343 relief camps in different places.

He said 69.81 lakh people are in the grip of floods which has engulfed 98 blocks and 1,070 panchayats in the state. The number of affected districts went up to 13 with Muzaffarpur being the latest addition. Flood waters submerged the district.

Special secretary in the state disaster management department Anirudh Kumar said Araria accounted for 20 flood deaths, West Champaran - 9, Kisanganj - 8, Sitamarhi - 5, Madhepura - 4, East Champaran, Darbhanga and Madhubani - 3 each and Sheohar - 1.