New high-resolution satellite imagery from Friday accessed by NDTV shows the exact site of the breach at the high-altitude South Lhonak Lake in Sikkim which resulted in disastrous floods, causing the loss of at least 50 lives.
Scientists and government authorities were working on an early warning system for glacial floods at a Himalayan lake in northeast India when it broke its banks this week with deadly consequences.
Heavy monsoon rainfall and a glacial lake outburst flood that caused severe flooding downstream – that’s the cause of the human-aided natural disaster in Sikkim that washed away part of the Teesta 3 dam – damaged parts of Teesta 5, wrecked bridges and drowned roads. | Latest News India