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The moment the deluge of water washed away parts of the dam

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Dozens of people are missing and feared dead aer a glacier crashed into a
dam and triggered a huge flood in northern India.

The broken dam prompted a deluge of water to pour through a valley in the
state of Uttarakhand.

Villages have been evacuated, but officials warned as many as 150 people may
have been victims of the flooding.

Video shared on social media showed the floodwater streaming through the
area and causing widespread damage.

"It came very fast, there was no time to alert anyone," Sanjay Singh Rana, who
lives near to the Dhauli Ganga river, told the Reuters news agency.

"I felt that even we would be swept away."

At least three bodies have been found and 150 people are registered as
missing, a police spokesman told the AFP news agency.

Most of those missing were workers at power projects near the breached dam
in the Tapovan area.

REUTERS

The glacier crashed into the Rishiganga Hydroelectric Project dam

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More than 50 people working at the dam, known as the Rishiganga

Hydroelectric Project, are feared dead, Uttarakhand Police Chief Ashok Kumar
said.

But he said some workers had been rescued from the site.

Emergency crew managed to rescue 16 workers who had been trapped inside
a tunnel that had been filled with debris. Footage released by India's ANI
news agency showed some of the workers being pulled out.

Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, Trivendra Singh Rawat, said teams from the
police and the army were "doing their best to save the lives of the workers".

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he was monitoring the situation. "The
nation prays for everyone's safety there," he wrote on Twitter shortly aer
speaking with the state minister.

AFP

Dozens of emergency workers have been deployed to the region

Emergency workers have been evacuating dozens of villages.

"The water level of the river is now one metre (3.2) above normal but the
flow is decreasing," Mr Singh Rawat said.

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The neighbouring state of Uttar Pradesh has put some riverside areas on high
alert for flooding.

It was not immediately clear what caused Sunday's glacial avalanche in

Uttarakhand. But the state, in the western Himalayas, is prone to flash floods
and landslides.

Some 6,000 people are believed to have been killed in floods in June 2013
which were triggered by the heaviest monsoon rains in decades.

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