Feb 07, 2021, 16:18 IST
BREAKING: Massive floods were triggered after a part of the Nanda Devi glacier broke off at Joshimath in Uttarakhand s Chamoli district on Sunday.
This led to a massive flood in the Dhauli Ganga river and causing large-scale devastation.
It is reported that more than 100 labourers working at a power project in Tapovan-Reni are feared dead and the power project was swept away completely.
Homes along the way were also swept away as the waters rushed down the mountainsides in a raging torrent.
Several districts, including Pauri, Tehri, Rudraprayag, Haridwar and Dehradun, that were likely to be affected were put on high alert.
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The massive flood which took place in the Dhauli Ganga river on Sunday in the Chamoli district of Uttarakhand came as a grim reminder of the 2013 catastrophe in Kedarnath which led to widespread devastation in the ecologically fragile Himalayan region.
The torrential rains of unseen magnitude had struck Kedarnath on 16-17 June back in 2013 resulting in several people losing their lives, their loved ones and their homes.