Over 14,000 people in West and East Midnapore were rendered homeless today as a swelling Kangshabati river breached mud embankments.
The flooding in the low-lying villages was aggravated because water was released from the Tarafeni barrage.
Irrigation officials said there was a surge of around 80,000 cusecs of water in the Kangshabati last evening that caused the river to swell and breach em
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/river-swells-14000-homeless-midnapores
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/telegraph-kolkata
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rivers
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/medinipur-d
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/kangsabati
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/floods
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/birbhum
