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Sikkim floods: How the government played down their severity by by blaming them on a cloudburst

The disaster was far more serious: a glacial lake in Sikkim had burst, and its surging waters had washed away dams in the Teesta basin.

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Teesta flood: 150 labourers at Railway construction site miss death by whisker

Teesta flood: 150 labourers at Railway construction site miss death by whisker
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flash floods | Flood: 150 labourers at railway construction site near Sikkim-Bengal border miss death by whisker

Officers of a private construction company, for which the labourers work, rushed to their colony with vehicles just in time after learning about the impending calamity and saved the sleeping workers from certain death

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Sikkim floods: How 150 labourers miss death by whisker

We cried our hearts out as we saw our huts going underwater. It was hard to believe that I was fast asleep at the same spot just 15-20 minutes ago

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Sikkim flash floods: CM blames Teesta dam s substandard construction | Sikkim flash floods CM blames Teesta dam s substandard construction

Shocking images showed the swift destruction of Teesta III, Sikkim's largest dam. A flood monitoring system failure possibly contributed to this catastrophe. Today, the Sikkim CM Prem Singh Tamang has said the Chungthang dam was washed away due to substandard construction.

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