Fourteen more people perished in the devastating floods in Bihar on Friday taking the death toll to 149 this monsoon while five members of a family were washed away following a cloudburst in Himachal Pradesh. In Bihar, where Chief Minister Nitish Kumar made an aerial survey of several flood-affected districts during the day, the swollen Ganga river was still flowing above the danger level.
A release by the Disaster Management Department said Bhojpur accounted for maximum 13 deaths. The floods have been caused by overflowing Ganga, Sone, Punpun, Burhi Gandak, Ghaghra, Kosi and other rivers and have affected 32.51 lakh people in 2,018 villages under 553 panchayats of 74 blocks in the state, it said. Ganga, though showing a receding trend, is flowing above the danger mark at seven places - Digha Ghat, Gandhi Ghat, Hathidah in Patna, Bhagalpur and Kahalgaon in Bhagalpur district, besides in Munger and Buxar districts.
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