PRAYAGRAJ, Aug. 5 -- Mohd Javed Iqbad, a retired government official, has been stranded in his house with his family of nine in the Kareli area of the city after floodwater engulfed the entire area on Sunday afternoon.

Santosh Kumar of Nevada and eight others of his family, three of whom are children, have been patiently waiting for the floods to recede, at the relief centre in Beli. He said most of the goods in his house were damaged by the floods. He was worried that they'd become unusable.

Floods in both the Ganga and the Yamuna continued to rise for the eighth day in a row, affecting nearly five lakh people in the district and leaving them either stranded in their house or at a flood relief centre.

On Monday, both rivers crossed 86...