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150 Missing After Glacier Smashes Into Dam in Northern India

DEVASTATING

More than 50 people were working at the dam, known as the Rishiganga Hydroelectric Project, when the glacier struck, causing extensive flooding.

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As many as 150 people are missing and feared dead after a glacier crashed into a dam and caused extensive flooding in northern India. Video showed the massive ice mound smashing into the structure, sending water down into the valleys where it flooded villages. “It came very fast, there was no time to alert anyone,” a villager who lives in the Dhauli Ganga valley, told the Reuters news agency. “I felt that even we would be swept away.”

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