Vehicles Half Buried in Mud After Floods Sweep Through Northeast India #shorts | VOA News

Hundreds of rescuers dug through slushy debris and fast-flowing, icy water Friday in a search for survivors after a glacial lake overflowed and burst through a dam in India's Himalayan north, a disaster that many had warned was possible for years.

The flood began in the early hours of Wednesday when water overflowed a mountain lake. It smashed through a major hydroelectric dam downstream and then poured into the valley below, where it killed at least 41 people, carrying bodies kilometers away, and forced thousands to flee their homes.

It wasn’t clear what triggered the deadly flood, the latest to hit northeast India in a year of unusually heavy monsoon rains. Experts pointed to intense rain, and a 6.2 magnitude earthquake that struck nearby Nepal on Tuesday afternoon, as possible contributors.

In Sikkim, more than 2,000 people were rescued after Wednesday’s floods, the state Disaster Management Authority said, adding that authorities set up 26 relief camps for more than 22,000 people. (AP)

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