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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 ...
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]
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
2007 Bihar flood; T. 2007 Thattekkad boat disaster This page was last edited on 13 October 2020, at 10:36 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
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 ...
The water was already knee-high on the ground floor of the hotel where Aitana Puchal had taken refuge when she received a text alert from the regional government of Valencia at 8 pm on Oct. 29 ...