Indian Flood Victims to Spend Six Months in Camps Hundreds of thousands of Indian flood refugees are likely to spend six months in state-run relief camps while authorities rebuild homes, roads and river embankments in the flood-ravaged north, officials said Monday. More than 257,000 people have taken shelter in 313 state-run camps in Bihar state, where the Kosi River burst its banks last month and turned hundreds of square miles of land into a giant lake, said Prataya Amrit, a state disaster management official. 1 comment

2.5 Million Indians Stranded by Flood Nearly 2.5 million Indians remained stranded, homeless, and hungry in flood-ravaged villages in the eastern part of the country Tuesday, 17 days after a river burst a dam in neighboring Nepal and changed course. Heavy rains and the swelling waters of the Kosi, known as the "river of sorrow" and worshiped by local people, caused havoc in almost 1,000 villages in Bihar state. Add a Comment