Incessant rainfall in catchment areas of Nepal has led to the rivers flowing above danger level at several places. The flood water has entered into as many as 100 villages affecting more than 50,000 people in six districts which include Araria, Katihar, Purnea, Bhagalpur, Munger and Supaul. No causality has been reported yet and villagers are shifted to safer places.
Most of the rivers are in spate and a flood situation has developed in the Kosi-Seemanchal region. A government school in Katihar has been submerged in the Mahananda river and many roads in these districts have been destroyed.
The rise and fall in the water level of the river continues since Saturday, whereas an embankment breached in Pipra due to which water has spread to nearby villages in Araria creating a flood like situation. Flood situation prevails in more than a dozen villages due to the spread of Parman river water.
