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By 10 August, aid workers in Bihar reported a dramatic increase in people with diarrhea [5] and by 11 August, flood-related deaths were still occurring. [6] The total number of deaths recorded in the 2007 Bihar floods was more than 1,3050, the highest death toll in the state since the 1987 Bihar floods, in which more than 2,500 deaths were ...
A recent fact-finding report on the Kosi floods of 2008 – prepared by a civilian organization, the Fact Finding Mission on the Kosi, composed of various experts such as Sudhirendar Sharma, Dinesh Kumar Mishra, and Gopal Krishna – highlighted the fact that although India has built over 3000 km of embankments in Bihar over the last few decades, the propensity for flooding has increased by 2. ...
Districts of Bangladesh affected by flooding between 3 July and 15 August 2007 (marked in blue). On 1 August, there was flooding on the Padma and Brahmaputra rivers. [7] By 3 August, the main highway connecting Dhaka to the rest of the country was impassable, [2] many districts were flood-affected [4] and 500,000 people had been marooned. [7]
2007 China flood, mountain torrents, mud-rock flows China: 2007 1,268 Floods caused by Tropical Storm Washi [13] Philippines: 2011 1,029 2004 China flood, mountain torrents, mud-rock flows, landslide China: 2004 1,000–8,000 2016 Indian floods by monsoon rain India: 2016 1,000 [citation needed] 1961 Bihar flood India: 1961 992
An aerial view of the flood affected villages where the relief material being dropped by the IAF helicopter in Bihar An aerial view of the flood affected village with people sitting on the roofs of houses Bihar 2008 Bihar floods. In response to the disaster, widely reported as the region's worst flood in 50 years, Nitish Kumar, Chief Minister ...
Kosi river flood was the worst hit flood of India in 2008. The nexus of the Bihar flood is the Kosi River's immense alluvial fan, extending some 185 km from the river's exit from the Himalayas and foothills in Nepal, down to its confluence with the Ganges in Bihar. The laws of geology and physics cause rivers to course back and forth across ...
Derna is prone to flooding, and its dam reservoirs have caused at least five deadly floods since 1942, the latest of which was in 2011, according to a research paper published by Libya’s Sebha ...
2013 Bihar flood; 2017 Bihar flood; 2024 Koshi flood ... 2007 Bihar flood; J. 2024 Jivitputrika tragedy This page was last edited on 6 October 2024, at 20:39 (UTC ...