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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums5,000 missing and nearly 600 dead so far in North India floods
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/21/india-floods-uttarakhand-600-deaths<snip>
The death toll from monsoon flooding and landslides in mountainous northern India rose to nearly 600 on Friday with rescuers finding bodies in the Ganges and in the muddy, broken earth, officials said.
The Uttarakhand state chief minister, Vijay Bahuguna, told CNN-IBN television channel on Friday that 556 bodies had been seen buried deep in mud and the army was trying to recover them. Rescuers also found 40 bodies floating in the Ganges near the pilgrimage site of Haridwar, said Rajiv Swaroop, a police officer.
Rakesh Sharma, another state official, said on Thursday that the death toll might reach the thousands, but the exact figure would not be known until the entire region had been checked.
A spokesman for Uttarakhand, Amit Chandola, said the rescue operation was centred on evacuating nearly 27,000 people trapped in the worst-hit Kedarnath temple area, one of the holiest Hindu sites dedicated to the god Shiva, located high in the Garhwal Himalayan range. The temple escaped major damage, but debris covered the area around it and television images showed the bodies of pilgrims strewn around the area.
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Please send good vibes to the people of India - this is devastation
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5,000 missing and nearly 600 dead so far in North India floods (Original Post)
malaise
Jun 2013
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siligut
(12,272 posts)1. Bridges are being washed away and roads are blocked with debris
I wondered why high areas were flooding, but they aren't, it is just that people took refuge there and are now stranded. This is just horrible.
malaise
(269,256 posts)2. It's going to be much worse
with all those missing people. Landslides are the real problem here.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)3. Canada, Alaska, USA, Germany and outliers... Things are heating up in Global
Economy...and the PEOPLE are SUFFERING.
WAKE UP WORLD....HARD TIMES ARE COMING!
How shall we..will we COPE?
malaise
(269,256 posts)4. Many won't cope
including the thousands who are expected to die here.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)5. We have to prepare...and we CAN do it!
But...it ain't gonna be easy.
malaise
(269,256 posts)6. I agree with you
We just have to ignore those who refuse to get on board