Villages have been destroyed and a half a million people are stranded as flood conditions worsen in Indian state of Bihar.
Massive flooding in the Indian state of Bihar has stranded approximately 500, 000 people whose villages have been devastated by the flood waters.
The flood waters
are reaching previously unaffected areas as the conditions in relief camps are overcrowded and unsanitary.
At least 75 people in Bihar have been killed by the flooding but the death toll could climb once the situation in remote areas emerges.
Tens of thousands of people have also been displaced in neighbouring Nepal and some of those who have lost their homes are camping under plastic sheets.
Trucks and vans are unable to unload the relief material and stand parked on the highway as volunteers waited to be organised.
Aid has arrived bu the volunteers were not quite sure how to distribute it.
On August 18 a dam burst on the Saptakoshi river in Nepal.
The Saptakoshi, which becomes the Kosi when it enters India, overflowed in Bihar.
Hundreds of people in Nepal have been hit by illnesses such as diarrhoea and pneumonia and an estimated 50,000 are homeless.
Nearly 1,000 houses have been completely destroyed and power supplies and transport have been severely affected.
The costs to the economy are now estimated at one billion Nepalese rupees ($14.25m).
Flood in India Strands 500,000
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