Glacier burst: rescuers seek out 125 missing
Hundreds of military staff were deployed in the Indian Himalayas on Monday to help find in least 125 people unaccounted for after a part of a glacier broke away, leaving a torrent of normal water, rock and dust straight down a mountain valley.
Sunday's violent surge swept aside a little hydro electric task called Rishiganga and damaged a bigger 1 further downstream.
A lot of the missing were people working on the two assignments, one of the many the federal government has been setting up deep found in the mountains of Uttarakhand point out within a development push.
Rescue workers were centered on a good 2.5 km (1.5 miles) long tunnel where workers were believed trapped.
Vivek Pandey, a good spokesman of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police, said 30-35 staff were believed to be inside tunnel and that rescuers were striving to open its oral cavity and get inside.
There had been no voice contact but with anyone in the tunnel, another official said.
On Sunday 12 people were rescued from another tunnel.
Videos on social media showed water surging through a tiny dam site, washing away construction equipment and decreasing small bridges.
"Everything was swept away, persons, cattle and trees," Sangram Singh Rawat, a ex - village council person in Raini, the site closest to the glacier, told local media.
Some 400 soldiers have already been deployed to the website in the remote mountains, state authorities said.
"We expect to keep on operations for another 24 to 48 time, " stated Satya Pradhan, the principle of the National Disaster Response Pressure.
