Sudden, intense rain led to a Himalayan glacial lake overflowing it banks and the flood waters cascading through the valley below in the state of Sikkim.
Flood waters cracked open a dam in the Indian state of Sikkim, and then cascaded through towns in the valley below. Photo: AFPin India's northeast has risen close to 40 even as rescue workers continued to search for nearly 100 people officially said to be"missing", including 22 soldiers.
It was the latest deadly flood to hit northeast India in a year of unusually heavy monsoon rains. Nearly 50 people died in flash floods and landslides in August in nearby Himachal Pradesh state, record rains in July killed more than 100 people over two weeks in northern India. Vinay Bhushan Pathak, the state's top bureaucrat, said that 26 people had been taken to hospitals with injuries, while nearly 3,000 tourists were stranded in the flood-hit a reas along with 700 taxi drivers.ReutersThe South Llonak Lake has been rising in recent years as a warming climate melts the glaciers that feed it, putting pressure on the dam that contains it, but it wasn't clear what triggered the breach.
Several towns, including Dikchu and Rangpo in the Teesta basin, were flooded, and schools in four districts were ordered shut until Sunday, the state’s education department said.
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