Patna, Sept 12: Bihar continued to reel under the fury of unrelenting floods with seven more deaths reported from Patna and Saran districts taking the death toll to 153 even as Army along with civil authorities stepped up relief operations in the inundated areas today. While two persons drowned in the raging Ganga at Hetanpur in the riverine belt of Danapur sub-division of Patna district yesterday, three others died of snake bite in flood-hit Saidpur of saran district on the same day, official sources said.
Two others had drowned in the Ganga in Sonepur block of Saran district yesterday, the sources said. An additional column of Army arrived from Allahabad and was rushed to flood-hit areas of Chapra and Sonepur in Saran district along with Army personnel from Danapur cantonment, brigadier Harendra Mohan said.
The air dropping of food packets by Army was continuing for the second day today in the riverine belts of Danapur and Mane of Patna district, he said. Brigadier Mohan said an Army column from Ramgarh cantonment in Jharkahnd that had gone to Orissa for flood relief was being called to Bihar to be sent to the flood-affected areas of Munger district.
A Chapra report said with flood waters overtopping the tracks, train services on the Chapra-Varanasi section have been disrupted. Railway traffic was also affected on the Darbhanga-Nirmali section of the East Central Railway (ECR), a railway spokesman said. Bureau Report