First bodies recovered from Indian flood disaster tunnel

Tapovan, India (AFP) Feb 14, 2021

Rescuers on Sunday pulled the first bodies from a blocked tunnel at a power complex in a northern Indian valley devastated by a flash flood a week ago, where 161 people remain missing. Scores were killed in Uttarakhand state when the deluge - thought to have been triggered by a chunk of glacier sliding down a mountainside or a glacial lake breaching its banks - swept down the Rishiganga va