Photos: Over a million people affected due to floods in Bihar

Villagers move to safe place from a flood affected area in Supaul district. Bihar government has said that 960,000 people have been affected by floods in the state and 12,023 persons were staying in shelter homes.

22 National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) teams have been deployed across 12 flood-affected districts in Bihar, rescuing more than 3,500 people. Following the breach in the embankments in east Champaran and Gopalganj districts, NDRF teams reached there to carry out relief and rescue operations.

The river embankment, near Bhawanipur village in east Champaran, was breached on July 23-24 night due to the surging flood waters of the Gandak river. As soon as the embankment gave way, Bhawanipur village was inundated, affecting hundreds of people.

A team of NDRF carried out rescue operations in the flood-affected villages of Gambharia Diara and Kiratpura in Baikunthpur block of Gopalganj district on Friday night and evacuated 102 stranded people.

People wade through the floodwater as they move to a safer place, at Shekhapur Dhab in Muzaffarpur district

People wade through the floodwater as they move to a safer place, in Gopalganj district

A boy with his goat wades through the floodwater as he moves to a safer place, in Gopalganj district

People wade through floodwater following incessant monsoon rains, in Darbhanga district

Volunteers make relief food packets for flood-affected people, at SKM hall in Patna

Bihar Water Resources Minister Sanjay Kumar Jha conducts an aerial survey of the flood-affected areas of the state

A aerial view of flooded Bind Toli area along the banks of River Ganga following incessant rain, in Patna

NDRF personnel rescue people from flood-affected villages in Supaul

Normal life has been disrupted due to floods in the Gopalganj area

Normal life has been disrupted due to floods in the Gopalganj area