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Added on the 09/02/2021 05:29:35 - Copyright : AFP EN
Indian rescue workers are looking for survivors, with the help of sniffer dogs, as they struggle to dig away tonnes of rocks and mud in a choked Himalayan tunnel three days after a devastating flash flood likely caused by a burst glacier in India's Himalayan north IMAGES
Indian rescue workers battled through tonnes of rock and mud Tuesday searching for survivors in a choked Himalayan tunnel after a deadly flood -- apparently triggered by a glacial burst -- smashed through two mountain dam projects. More than 170 people were still missing, two days after a wall of water and debris hurtled down a valley in the northern state of Uttarakhand. FRANCE 24's Mandakini Gahlot tells us more.
Images of emergency workers at a dam in northern India that was damaged after a chunk of glacier broke up and unleashed a devastating flash flood. It killed at least a dozen people and left more than a hundred missing. IMAGES
A small Himalayan village in northern India bore witness to the devastating flash flood this month triggered by a glacier where scores were killed and roads, bridges and buildings destroyed. Residents of the village have been living in fear ever since and are leaving their homes to sleep at cowsheds several kilometres uphill. Experts blames rampant construction projects in the fragile Himalayan region for such extreme and unpredictable impacts.
A dog called 'Blackie' is stubbornly hanging around the entrance to a tunnel in Northern India, where rescuers are searching for people missing after floods triggered by a breaking glacier. An army officer says the dog was likely the pet of someone trapped inside.