Floodwaters have overflowed from Khado, Jeeta, Mahuli, Dhudhela along with other rivers, putting over a dozen settlements at risk and inundating about 1,500 houses in the district.
District Police Office (DPO), Saptari, said around 800 houses are estimated to be submerged.
“We have deployed teams to collect data on the number of houses inundated by the floods,” said SP Dwibedi.
Data collection and rescue works have been very challenging,” he added.
According to Mithilesh Jha, ward secretary of Tilathi-Koiladi Rural Municipality-9, most of the houses in wards 1 to 9 of Tilathi have been submerged.
According to him, the floods entered the villages after the western embankment at Khado River was damaged at two places.
Authorities have said that many houses of the villages have been waterlogged by about four feet.
As the floods have submerged houses, rendering kitchen and basic necessities useless, the flood victims have no place to cook food and are left to stay empty-stomach.
Even the children have nothing to eat.
Authorities have not been able to reach all the flood-affected areas of the district.