Indian rescuers are flying into the region where a flood washed out bridges and killed at least 74
By WASBIR HUSSAIN and ANUPAM NATH, WASBIR HUSSAIN and ANUPAM NATH, Associated Press
Published: October 9, 2023, 7:42am
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A doll lies outside a previously submerged house along the Teesta river in Rongpo, east Sikkim, India, Sunday, Oct. 8. 2023. Rescuers continued to dig through slushy debris and ice-cold water in a hunt for survivors after a glacial lake burst through a dam in India's Himalayan northeast, shortly after midnight Wednesday, washing away houses and bridges and forcing thousands to flee. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)Photo Gallery
GANGTOK, India (AP) — Air force helicopters rescued scores of stranded tourists Monday in India’s Himalayan northeast after a 6-year-old hydroelectric dam cracked open last week in intense rain, flooding a valley with glacial lake water and killing at least 74 people.
Officials told the Press Trust of India news agency that they recovered 34 bodies in Sikkim state since the flooding began on Wednesday, while authorities in neighboring West Bengal state have retrieved 40 bodies from the Teesta River as the floodwaters carried them downstream.
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