 Flooded farmlands in northern Bihar during the 2008 flood | |
| Date | 18 August 2008 |
|---|---|
| Location | northern Bihar, India, and Nepal |
| Deaths | 434[1] (Dead bodies were found until 27 November 2008) |
The 2008 Bihar flood was one of the most disastrous floods in the history of Bihar, an impoverished and densely populated state in India. The Koshi embankment near the Indo-Nepal border (at Kusaha VDC, Sunsari district, Nepal) broke on 18 August 2008. The river changed course and flooded areas which had not been flooded in many decades.[2] The flood affected over 2.3 million people in the northern part of Bihar.[3]
- ^ report by the Department of disaster management, Government of Bihar
- ^ A Dalit watch report on the flood camps in Bihar Archived 14 January 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Half of Bihar under water, 30 lakh suffer;". CNN IBN. 9 January 2008. Archived from the original on 3 September 2008. Retrieved 1 September 2008.