Floods in the Himalayas were caused by a cloud of clouds, which is common during the Montones season from June from June to September.
The sudden floods have swept through a Himalayan village in northern India, killing at least four people and leaving more than 50 missing, according to officials, who warned that the toll could increase even more.
The videos transmitted in the Indian media on Tuesday showed a terrifying wave of muddy water that swept the buildings in the Dharali village of the state of Uttarakhand.
You could see several people running before being wrapped through the dark waves of the debris that uprooted several -story buildings. A wide strip of the town was flooded by deep debris. In some places, the mud licked the roofs of the houses.
Four people were killed and many more have been rescued so far, said the administrator of the district of Uttarkashi, Prashant Arya, to local media.
“A huge landslide hit Dharali's village in the Kheer Gad area near Harsil, causing a sudden flow of rubble and water through settlement,” the Indian army said in an X position.
The rescue teams were “on the foot of war” to the state of the Himalayas of Uttarakhand, said state prime minister, Pushkar Singh Dhami, in a statement on Tuesday, and added: “We are doing everything possible to save lives and relieve.”
Army teams and disaster response forces arrived in the area, local authorities said, with workers trying to rescue trapped people under rubble and mud.
The National Authority for Disaster Management of India said it requested three federal government helicopters to help in rescue and help operations, while rescuers struggled to access the remote land.
“Fortunately, most people were at a fair in a safe place,” said a disaster official who asked not to be appointed, since he was not authorized to talk to the media.
The images released by the army, taken from the site after the main water torrent had disappeared, showed a slow mud river.
Red warning issued
Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed condolences to those “affected by this tragedy … no stone is left without stirring to provide assistance to people,” he said in a statement published on social networks.
The India Meteorology Department issued a red alert warning for the area and recorded “extremely heavy” rainfall of approximately 21 cm (8 inches) in isolated parts of Uttarakhand. He also predicted more rains in the region in the next few days.
The authorities have asked schools to remain closed in several districts, including the cities of Hradun and Haridwar.
Sudden and intense holes on small areas known as clouds have become increasingly common in Uttarakhand, a region prone to sudden floods and landslides during the Monzón season from June to September. The clouds have the potential to wreak havoc as it causes intense floods and landslides, affecting thousands of people in the mountainous regions.
Experts say that cloud clouds have increased in recent years due to climate change, while storm damage has also increased due to unplanned development in mountainous regions.
More than 6,000 people died and 4,500 villages were affected when a cloud of clouds similar devastated the state of Uttarakhand in 2013.
A 2023 report of the International Center for Integrated Mountains of Mountains based in Nepal found that glaciers are melting to unprecedented rates in the Hindu Kush and Himalayan mountain chains. The study found that at least 200 of the more than 2,000 glacial lakes in the region are at risk of overflowing, which can cause catastrophic damage downstream.
The UN World Meteorological Organization said last year that increasingly intense floods and droughts are a “sign of anguish” of what is to come, since climate change makes the planet's water cycle more unpredictable.
