Sekurang-kurangnya 100 hingga 150 orang dikhuatiri maut selepas sebuah perkampungan kaki gunung kawasan pergunungan Himalaya dilanda banjir kilat, sebentar tadi.
Pasukan polis Indo-Tibetan dikejarkan ke lokasi kejadian untuk memberikan bantuan kecemasan dan pasukan keselamatan India diletakkan dalam sitausi berjaga-jaga, lapor ANI.
Menurut laporan Bloomberg lagi, pihak berkuasa tempatan juga mengarahkan penduduk yang tinggal berdekatan dengan kawasan tragedi untuk segera berpindah.
Laporan media menyebut, kejadian banjir kilat itu dipercayai berpunca daripada runtuhan glasier.
India fears 100-150 people killed after part of Himalayan glacier broke and caused widespread flooding alongside a river in Uttarakhand State's Chamoli district
Image: Screenshot/Twitter video pic.twitter.com/fxyvAnxhRa
— TRT World Now (@TRTWorldNow) February 7, 2021
About 100-150 people are feared swept away in a flash flood after a Himalayan river burst its banks https://t.co/VB31vVCsaP
— Bloomberg (@business) February 7, 2021
#WATCH | Water level in Dhauliganga river rises suddenly following avalanche near a power project at Raini village in Tapovan area of Chamoli district. #Uttarakhand pic.twitter.com/syiokujhns
— ANI (@ANI) February 7, 2021
#Breaking A massive sudden floods in Dhauliganga after a huge Himalayan glacier collapse in Reni village in Uttarakhand which destroyed many river bankside houses now. This is real #ClimateEmergency.
My thoughts & prayers with the people of Uttarakhand.🙏🏻pic.twitter.com/mMHjyODbq4
— Licypriya Kangujam (@LicypriyaK) February 7, 2021
100-150 casualties feared in the flash flood in Chamoli district: Uttarakhand Chief Secretary OM Prakash to ANI pic.twitter.com/JoR76lWEAb
— ANI (@ANI) February 7, 2021
ITBP personnel assess the damages in Tapovan and area of Reni where flash flood occurred earlier today. (Photo source: ITBP) pic.twitter.com/8qDJcsbbDt
— ANI (@ANI) February 7, 2021
Himalayan glacier bursts in India; dozens feared dead https://t.co/JIupj4Cp4E pic.twitter.com/WiyOIMAZrw
— Al Jazeera News (@AJENews) February 7, 2021
