In India's eastern Bihar state, about 70 people have died and more than two million have been displaced by the country's heaviest flooding in fifty years.
Officials say more than 300,000 people have been rescued but nearly double that number remain stranded without food or water. The Kosi river breached its banks earlier this month on the border with Nepal and changed course, swamping hundreds of villages in eastern Bihar state. The government said the situation was unlikely to return to normal for months. UNICEF warned of the disease risk in congested relief camps.
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