text: Phailin effect: Heavy rainfall claims six lives in Bihar - States Jagran Post
  15 Oct 2013, 12:27 Jagran Post Editorial | Last Updated: 15 Oct 2013, 13:05
  Patna: At least six people, including two children, were killed in Bihar when their houses collapsed due to heavy rains and high speed winds under the effect of Cyclone Phailin, officials said on Tuesday.
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  The children died when their house collapsed after a tree fell on it in Vaishali district on Sunday while an old man and a woman died in Madhepura district after their thatched house crashed on them, an official of disaster management department.
  One person each died in Khagaria and Kaimur districts and unconfirmed reports said that four other people drowned in Purnea and Muzaffarpur districts. Reports reaching here from different parts of state said that heavy rain continued on Tuesday and the downpour was set to go on for another day.
  "Normal life was badly affected in the state by the heavy rainfall under the effect of Cyclone Phailin since Sunday," Vayasji, Principal Secretary of Disaster Management Department, said.
  He said that the state has already put district authorities on a flood alert. "The government on Monday sounded a flood alert in the state in view of heavy rainfall since late Saturday night," he said.
  Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday held a high-level meeting in Patna to review preparation to deal with the flood threat and assess the situation.