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Bihar floods, more than 2.5 million affected

By Lok News Bureau • Aug 30th, 2008 • Category: Frontpage, India

NEW DELHI – The death toll caused by a flood triggered by heavy monsoon rains in north India’s state of Bihar has reached 55 people, and over 250,000 have been forced to flee their homes. A two-kilometre breach in the eastern embankment of the Kosi River in Bihar last week has resulted in the inundation [...]