In other news, more than half-a-million people are stranded in villages across northern India twelve days after the Kosi River broke its bank. Over one million people have been left homeless. The BBC reports the floodwaters are spreading to new areas, and conditions in relief camps are overcrowded and unsanitary. Tens of thousands have also been displaced in neighboring Nepal. The disaster began on August 18, when a dam burst on the Saptakoshi River in Nepal.