Sunday, February 07, 2021
The day
Floods through crashed glaciers in India: first dead recovered
Border police employees doing rescue work.(Photo: picture alliance / dpa / Indo Tibetan Border Police / Ap)
After massive flash flood in northern India will continue at least 125 people missing, seven were found dead by the evening, according to the authorities. A huge glacier had previously broken off a mountain and crashed into a river. The accident occurred in the area around Joshimath in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, according to SN Pradhan, the chairman of the Indian civil protection. A bridge was washed away and a power station damaged, said Pradhan. The whole glacier move downstream, so you already have warned lower villages and initiated an evacuation, Pradhan continued
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