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Search on for more than 200 after India glacier fractures, sweeping away all before it

Search on for more than 200 after India glacier fractures, sweeping away all before it

SAURABH SHARMA INDIAN rescuers continued with the search yesterday for the more than 200 people missing after part of a remote Himalayan glacier broke away, sweeping away bridges, breaking dams and sending a torrent of water, rocks and construction debris down a mountain valley. Sunday's disaster below Nanda Devi, India's second-highest peak, swept away the small Rishiganga hydro-electric project and damaged a bigger one further down the Dhauliganga river being built by state firm NTPC. Eighteen bodies had been recovered so far, officials said. Most of the missing were people working on the two projects, part of the many the…
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Himalayan glacier breaks in India, around 125 missing in floods

Himalayan glacier breaks in India, around 125 missing in floods

DEVJYOT GHOSHAL aand MANOJ KUMAR AROUND 125 people were missing in northern India after a Himalayan glacier broke and swept away a small hydroelectric dam yesterday, with floods forcing the evacuation of villages downstream. A wall of dust, rock and water hit as an avalanche roared down the Rishiganga valley deep in the mountains of Uttarakhand, a witness said. "It came very fast, there was no time to alert anyone," Sanjay Singh Rana, who lives on the upper reaches of the river in Raini village, told Reuters by phone. "I felt that even we would be swept away." Uttarakhand Chief…
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