‘Fury of the river’: Glacier breaks in India’s north, flooding power plant, homes
By Biswajeet Banerjee and Rishabh R. Jain
Updated
February 7, 2021 10.32pm
Rishikesh: Indian rescue crews struggled to reach trapped victims on Sunday after part of a glacier in the Himalayas broke off, releasing a torrent of water and debris that slammed into two hydroelectric plants. At least nine people were killed and 140 were missing in a disaster experts said appeared to point to global warming.
Video from India’s northern state of Uttarakhand showed the muddy, concrete-grey floodwaters tumbling through a valley and surging into a dam, breaking it into pieces with little resistance before roaring on downstream. The flood turned the countryside into what looked like an ash-coloured moonscape.
Indian rescue crews struggled to reach trapped victims on Sunday (IST) after part of a glacier in the Himalayas broke off, releasing a torrent of water and