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The tragedy is the latest in a series of floods in the region after unusually heavy rainfall.

A glacial lake that overflowed in India’s Himalayan northeast, sending ice cold water crashing through a major dam and towns and killing at least 31 people, had been identified by state officials, researchers and environmental activists as dangerous years before the disaster. The flood began shortly after midnight Wednesday, when a glacial lake high in the mountains overflowed after a heavy rainfall. The waters crashed into the largest dam in the state of Sikkim, cracking its concrete before cascading through towns in the Lachan Valley below and sweeping away people, houses, roads and bridge...

Heavy rains on Thursday caused a Himalayan glacial lake in India to overflow causing deadly floods and left 18 people were killed and over 100 were missing, official said

Rescue workers are searching for nearly 100 people after flash floods triggered by a sudden heavy rainfall swamped several towns in northeastern India, killing at least 18 people. The Sikkim

Former Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh raises question about credibility of clearances in the wake of Sikkim dam collapse