13 districts in Bihar hit

Four more districts, including Belchi in Nalanda, the ancestral village of former Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, were under the grip of the floods that has affected 580,000 people in 13 districts of Bihar, officials said on Monday.

Four more battalions of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) have been rushed from neighbouring West Bengal to join the eight teams engaged in relief and rescue operation, Vijay Sinha, NDRF battalion commandant, told PTI.

Four more districts, including Patna, Gopalganj, East Champaran and Sheikhpura were under the grip of flood today, Anirudh Kumar, special secretary in disaster management department, said. Darbhanga, Nalanda, West Champaran, Supaul, Saharasa, Nawada, Sitamarhi, Khagaria and Muzaffarpur are other districts witnessing inundation.

There is no information of any fresh death in the flood. Two persons had lost their lives till Sunday.