According to officials, at least 40 people have perished in the flash floods that have inundated India’s northeast, and army troops are planning helicopter rescues for more of the thousands of people who are still trapped in the storm.
A glacier lake burst near India’s borders, causing floods in Sikkim..
Climate experts caution that as global temperatures increase and the ice melts, such calamities will become a greater threat throughout the Himalayas.
More dead were found by search and rescue personnel overnight as the waves carved a path across the countryside toward the Bay of Bengal.
V.B. Pathak, the state’s senior civil officer, told AFP that “nineteen bodies have been recovered” in Sikkim.