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  • A rescue operation is underway in northern India after part of the Himalayan glacier collapsed into a river, sweeping away a damn and triggering huge floods.

  • At least nine people are known to have died in more than 100 are missing, many of them construction workers at a hydropower plant in Utah, Arakan state are South Asia.

  • Correspondent.

  • Virginia body in Elton reports things dramatic footage shows When the number Davey Glacier in the Himalayas burst on Sunday morning, thing assed water gushed down the valley.

  • Damage and destruction.

  • About 50 to 100 people were running for their lives but couldn't be saved on.

  • They were engulfed by the river.

  • The situation here is still dangerous.

  • People are leaving their homes and are fleeing towards the forest.

  • With floodwaters rising and roads and homes destroyed.

  • An urgent rescue operation was under way.

  • Hundreds of members of the Indian military and disaster response units have been deployed to the area.

  • Approximately 125 people could be missing as per the estimates, but it could rise because the power company is unable to give the exact figures.

  • Everyone is busy in the rescue operations, A moment of hope his workers rescued one man from this tunnel, but dozens more is still feared trapped, officials say two power plants employing more than 150 people were also hit.

  • Many of the workers remain unaccounted for.

  • Hospitals are on standby in a tweet.

  • India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he was constantly monitoring the situation in India.

  • Stand, withdraw, Khan, he said.

  • Regina Vaidyanathan, BBC News Deli.

A rescue operation is underway in northern India after part of the Himalayan glacier collapsed into a river, sweeping away a damn and triggering huge floods.

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