Families of missing face agonizing wait after Himalayan disaster in India 2 minutes read
New Delhi, Feb 9 (efe-epa).- Families of people still missing after a Himalayan disaster that killed 32 in northern India were on Tuesday facing an unbearable wait to see if their loved ones were still alive.
Nearly 200 are still unaccounted for after the avalanche hit the mountainous state of Uttarakhand on Sunday, according to the government.
“(Some)197 people (are) missing. 32 bodies recovered so far from various locations,” the state-run Press Information Bureau said in a tweet.
Federal Home Minister Amit Shah told the parliament the rescue operation was “going on war footing and all out efforts are simultaneously being made for searching missing persons.”
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‘Joshimath flood was due to slumping of temporarily deposited snow. Pattern of climate is shifting in the Himalayan region’ February 9, 2021, 7:23 PM IST
Santosh Kumar Rai is a senior scientist in the glaciology lab of the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun. It is an autonomous research institute of the central government. The institute’s glaciology lab has a field station at an altitude of 3,800 metres that collects data through the year. Rai shared his initial understanding of the probable cause of the flood on Sunday in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district with
Sanjeev Verma:
The flash floods that hit parts of Uttarakhand's Chamoli district two days ago was due to the collapse of a hanging glacier, the scientists at the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology suggested in their initial observations.
Scientists Research What May Have Caused Uttarakhand Flash Floods: Report Scientists Research What May Have Caused Uttarakhand Flash Floods: Report Two teams comprising five glaciologists of the WIHG are at the site conducting observations. The teams carried out a helicopter survey of the area on Tuesday to find clues as to what led to the massive flash floods that swept everything on the way.
Two teams comprising five glaciologists of the WIHG are at the site conducting observations.
New Delhi:
A rock mass weakened over a period of time due to freezing and thawing of snow must have led to the creation of a weak zone , triggering its collapse, which resulted in the formation of a temporary dam that eventually breached, causing the deadly floods in Uttarakhand s Chamoli district on Sunday, initial observations by scientists of the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WIHG) suggest.