Sub-Himalayan region

Members of a rescue team work inside a tunnel after a part of a glacier broke away in Tapovan, in the northern state of Uttarakhand, India, February 11, 2021. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis

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Rescuers drill Indian tunnel to look for trapped workers; families get impatient

About 171 people remain unaccounted for since Sunday’s disaster in Uttarakhand state, most of them workers at the Tapovan Vishnugad hydroelectric project and at the smaller Rishiganga dam, which...

This photograph provided by Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) shows ITBP personnel use torches to gain access inside a tunnel to rescue more than three dozen power plant workers trapped inside it after part of a Himalayan glacier broke off Sunday and sent a wall of water and debris rushing down the mountain in Tapovan area of the northern state of Uttarakhand, India, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021. Photo: AP

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India glacier disaster: Families join search for survivors

Members of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) tend to people rescued after a Himalayan glacier broke and swept away a small hydroelectric dam, in Chormi village in Tapovan in the northern state of Uttarakhand, India, February 7, 2021. REUTERS/Stringer

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Desperate search for survivors after India glacier disaster

Excavator exits a tunnel in Chamoli, Uttarakhand, India during a rescue operation after a glacier burst, in this still frame taken from video dated February 8, 2021. STATE DISASTER RESPONSE FORCE/via REUTERS

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26 dead, hundreds missing: What we know so far about Uttarakhand flash flood

South Asia

India glacier avalanche leaves 18 dead, more than 200 missing

South Asia

Rescuers search for 125 missing in Himalayas, many believed trapped in tunnel after glacier burst

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