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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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