Nearly 200 workers missing after Indian glacier’s collapse
Workers on a hydroelectric dam were swept away by a wall of water from a collapsed glacier that barrelled down a Himalayan river
09 February 2021 - 13:34
Lucknow — Rescuers raced to free about 35 Indian construction workers trapped in a tunnel, two days after the hydroelectric dam they were helping build was swept away by a wall of water from a collapsed glacier that barrelled down a Himalayan river.
The workers were among 197 people who officials said are still unaccounted for as the death toll from the disaster — which also broke apart bridges, cut off villages and scarred tracts of mountain landscape — rose to 28...
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