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Biswajeet Banerjee and Rishabh R. Jain
RUDRAPRAYAG, India
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Members of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police take part in a rescue operation after a broken glacier caused a major river surge that swept away bridges and roads, at a tunnel near Tapovan dam in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand, India, on Feb. 8, 2021.
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Rescuers in northern India worked Monday to rescue more than three dozen power plant workers trapped in a tunnel after part of a Himalayan glacier broke off and sent a wall of water and debris rushing down a mountain in a disaster that has left at least 26 people dead and 165 missing.