NEW DELHI: On Thursday( Oct 5) in north India, at least 14 people were killed and 102 were missing, including 22 military officers, after torrential rains caused a glacial lake to break its banks, causing flash floods to fall down an mountain valley, according to officials.
According to authorities, the crisis is the most recent in a string of fatal climate occurrences in South Asia’s mountains that have been attributed to climate change. It has claimed the lives of 22, 000 people.
According to a defense representative on the X social media site, formerly known as Twitter,” the search operations are being conducted under conditions of constant rains, fast-moving water in the Teesta river, and roads and bridges werehed away at some places.”
On Wednesday, a cloudburst caused flash floods to occur in the Teesta river, about 150 kilometers northeast of Gangtok, the capital of Sikkim state, close to the Chinese border. The Lhonak glacial lake experienced heavy rainfall over an extended period of time.
As of early Thursday, according to the state disaster management company, 26 individuals had been hurt and 102 had vanished. Eleven roads were destroyed by water.