Click to play videoNew Delhi: As river Kosi continues to wreak havoc, the trauma of homelessness is fast displaced by the fear of hunger.
Thousands are now streaming into Patna, where the railway station now resembles a refugee camp.
“The situation back home is terrible. People are thirsting for water to drink,” Mohammed Karim, a flood victim from Saharsa, says.
For thousands like Mohammed Karim, who are left homeless by the floods in Bihar, it's any port in a storm.
Several families made their way out of the remotest flood-hit areas, only to find themselves marooned in the state capital Patna, friendless and with no place to sleep.
There is hardly an inch of space on the Patna Junction railway station. Each train brings more survivors and more stories of how the victims were trapped between the floodwaters
Dinesh Yadav, who arrived from Madhepura, had to plead with rescuers to ferry his family to safety.
“They were only rescuing those in the water. I pleaded with them, saying I'm handicapped,” Dinesh says.
The accounts give a far different picture from the promises made by the state government.
“Not everyone has relatives on whom they can rely. These people will need to be kept in relief camps for a long time to come,” Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had assured.
With no food or potable water, the survivors at least have a roof above their heads at the railway station.
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