Araria district accounted for 95 deaths alone, followed by Sitamarhi(34), West Champaran(29),
Katihar(26), East Champaran(19) while 22 have died in Madhubani, Supaul(13) and Madhepura15.
The embankment that is responsible for causing flooding and displacing hundreds of villages and
destroying a vast tract of agricultural land from Sitamarhi, Darbhanga to Muzaffarpur district is a part of the Bagmati project.