Surprising floods are killed in northern India at least 4, besieging others under the debris

Officials said on Tuesday that the flash floods swept many homes and shops in northern India, killing at least four people and leaving many others trapped under the debris.

Local television channels showed flood water that rises in Jabal and crashed in the village of Al -Himalayas, in the state of Uttrantal state, in the state of Uttrangal. The flood water was flooded, the roads swept and destroyed a local market.

“About ten hotels have been washed and many stores collapsed,” said Brashant Aria, the administrative officer, adding that the rescuers, including the Indian army and the police, were looking for the missing.
The Prime Minister of Uttikrand Pushkar Singh Dammi said that rescue agencies are “in full swing.”

“We are doing everything possible to save lives and provide comfort,” he said in a statement.

The National Disaster Management Authority in India said it had requested three helicopters from the federal government to help rescue and relief operations, as rescuers struggled to reach remote terrain.

Officials did not provide a number for those trapped or missing.

The Indian weather agency expected more heavy rains in the area in the coming days. The authorities have asked schools to remain closed in many areas, including the cities of Diaradon and Harridwar.

Surprisingly heavy rains on small areas known as CloudBursts have become increasingly common in Uttranjal, an area in Himalayas exposed to floods and landslides during the seasonal wind season. Cloudbursts has the possibility of chaos by causing floods and looting the ground, affecting thousands of people in mountainous areas.

More than 6000 people died and 4,500 villages were affected when a similar cloud was destroyed by the state of Uttrangal in 2013.

Experts say Cloudbursts has partially increased in recent years due to climate change, while the damage caused by storms also increased due to unplanned development in mountainous areas.

The floods in northern India are the latest in a series of disasters that have been beaten by the Himalayas, which extend across five countries, in the past few months.

The country’s disaster agency reported that floods and landslides are the result of melting heavy rains and glaciers due to the high temperatures that killed more than 300 people in Pakistan, the country’s disaster agency said. In 2024 alone, there were 167 catastrophes in Asia – including storms, floods, thermal waves and earthquakes – which were more than any continent, according to the emergency juvenile database kept by the University of Louvan in Belgium. The researchers found that these led to losses of more than 32 billion dollars.

The 2023 report issued by the International International Center for Integrated Mountain Development in Nepal found that the ice rivers melt at unprecedented rates through the domains of Jabal Al -Hindus Kush and Mount Himalayas. The study found that at least 200 of more than 2000 ice lakes in the region are at risk of surplus, which may cause catastrophic damage in the direction of the river.