According to a speech from India’s defense ministry, the floods had removed” firearms and explosives” from military tents.
According to the government, the military has” established alert teams all along the creek” to retrieve lost artillery.
According to local media reports from Friday, a cement tank that exploded while passing through West Bengal’s flood waters left two people dead and four others injured.
Across much of the condition, streets, bridges, and phone lines have been destroyed, making evacuations and communications with thousands of people cut off from the outside world more difficult.
According to the most recent Sikkim state report, more than 1, 200 homes had been damaged by the storms.
According to the bulletin, almost 7, 000 people were seeking refuge at improvised relief tents set up at schools, government buildings, and guesthouses while more than 2,400 people had been saved.
Ice MELTING QUICKER THAN Possibly
The high-altitude Lhonak Lake, which is surrounded by mountains that are home to Kangchenjunga, the third-highest mountain in the world, burst due to intense rain.
Water moved inland, swollen the river now from monsoon rains, damaging a reservoir, and sweeping away homes.
According to the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development ( ICIMOD ) research group, Himalayan glaciers are melting more quickly than ever as a result of climate change, exposing communities to costly and unpredictable disasters.
Arun Bhakta Shrestha, an ICIMOD climate change consultant, said to AFP,” Climat change is the root cause, and this is going to increase in the future.”
Storm events similar to those caused by glacial lake outbursts are very good.
Since pre-industrial days, the average surface temperature of the Earth has increased by almost 1.2 degrees Celsius, but high-mountain regions around the world have warmed at twice that rate, according to climate scientists.