A massive search-and-rescue operation was underway Sunday in northern India for at least 140 people missing after part of a Himalayan glacier broke off, triggering an avalanche of rock, mud, water and debris that swept away a hydroelectric dam.
Video recorded by witnesses from across a valley showed a torrent of water and debris breaking through a dam that’s part of the Rishiganga Hydroelectric Project, more than 300 miles north of New Delhi.
“It came very fast. There was no time to alert anyone,” local resident Sanjay Singh Rana told Reuters. “I felt that even we would be swept away.”
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