The deluge, arriving late in the monsoon season, triggered landslides and pushed the GandakRiver, also called the Narayani, to record levels in both Nepal and India...DialogueEarth (2018, October 1) The silt farmers of the Gandak river.
19 NDRF and SDRF teams were conducting rescue and relief operations.The flood situation has also been improving in East Champaran, where the Gandak water level in Areraj, Sangrampur and Kesariya blocks has fallen by about four feet.
The flood situation in north Bihar worsened on Thursday as the swollen Gandak, flowing above its highest flood level (HFL) in Gopalganj, Saran and Vaishali, breached embankments at two more points, one each in Saran and Muzaffarpur.