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Kosi River

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Kosi River

River, Nepal and northern India. Rising from several tributaries in eastern Nepal, it runs south through the great plain of northern India. It empties into the Ganges River after a course of 450 mi (724 km).



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Kosi river burst its banks in Bihar and flooded half of the state last year, wiping out villages and farms and displacing more than three million people.
2 million people displaced by the rising flood waters after the Kosi River burst in Nepal two weeks ago have been rescued, Prataya Amrit, a disaster official in the Indian state of Bihar, said on Tuesday.
Large swathes of the already impoverished state of Bihar were flooded after defences upstream in Nepal broke, shifting the flow of the Kosi river away from its normal course and onto farmland.
 
 
 
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