India glacier collapse: rescuers search for hundreds missing in disaster’s wake
- Sunday’s flood in Uttarakhand destroyed one dam, damaged another and washed away homes, leaving at least 18 people dead and hundreds missing
- Rescuers are attempting to save dozens of workers who are stuck inside a tunnel at a hydropower plant that was in the path of destruction
Rescuers searched for more than 200 people missing in the Indian Himalayas on Monday, including some trapped in a tunnel, after part of a glacier broke away, sending a torrent of water, rock and dust down a mountain valley.
Eighteen bodies have been recovered from the mountainsides, officials said.
Most of the missing were people working on the two projects, part of the many the government has been building deep in the mountains of Uttarakhand state as part of a development push.
“As of now, around 203 people are missing,” state chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat said, and the number was changing as more information about people caught up the deluge emerged from the remote area.
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Himalayan glacier breaks in northern India, leaving at least 170 missing in deadly floods