Victims return for belongings

  • 08/09/2008

  • Asian Age (New Delhi)

BY RASHME SEHGAL SUPAUL, NORTHEAST BIHAR Behli Camp, located northeast of Supaul, is the last outpost of dry land after which the turbulent waters of the raging Kosi river take over. It is from here that the Army and private entrepreneurs are ferrying boats to bring in marooned villagers who have been living on rooftops and dry patches of land for the last three weeks. But the Army contingent of 1,200 jawans led by Brigadier P.S. Rathi are horrified to find that there are as many villagers clambering into these boats to return to their marooned homes as there are villagers being evacuated. Buchaiya Yadav, a mother of six daughters and one son, is one such individual determined to take the boat back to Madhubani to check out if her home and hearth are intact.