Survivors of two-weeks of massive floods in northeast India say the government rescue operation has been a failure.
More than 400,000 people have been evacuated so far, but authorities are struggling to rescue some 700,000 people still marooned on rooftops or small patches of high ground. Some stranded villagers have begun looting abandoned homes in the search for food. About 76 people have died since the monsoon-swollen Kosi river breached its banks two weeks ago on India's border with Nepal and changed course, swamping hundreds of villages in impoverished Bihar state. The floods have displaced nearly 3 million people.
(Deutsche Welle)
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