Updated On: 06 August, 2015 06:55 PM IST | | PTI
<p>The death toll in floods in West Bengal rose to 97 on Thursday even as the situation improved with the water level receding slowly following little or no rain and reduced water discharge from barrages</p>
Kolkata: The death toll in floods in West Bengal rose to 97 on Thursday even as the situation improved with the water level receding slowly following little or no rain and reduced water discharge from barrages.
Disaster Management Department officials said the toll rose to 97 after 12 more deaths were reported today. As the water level receded some people in the relief camps started returning to their homes.