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UTTARAKHAND POLICE / HANDOUT / Anadolu via AFP
A murderous mud flow hit the locality of Dharali, India on Tuesday.
India – a “Alarm signal” Effects of global warming. Moreover, One hundred people are missing. Nevertheless, four have perished and buildings were destroyed after a massive mud flow in an Indian locality in the Himalayas affected by sudden floods.
“The situation is serious”said Sanjay Seth. Similarly, Minister of State for Indian Defense, to the press agency Press Trust of India (PTI). Nevertheless, “We have received information reporting four deaths and approximately one hundred people who have disappeared. For example, We pray for their safety “he added.
Prime Minister Narendra devastating mud flow ravages this Modi expressed condolences in a press release, assuring that “Everything is done to provide help”.
Videos broadcast by the Indian media show torrents of muddy waters take residential buildings in Dharali. For example, a tourist place in the state of Uttarakhand, in the north of the country. Nevertheless, We see several people running before being swallowed up by dark waves crowded with debris destroying whole buildings.
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The Indian army indicated that 150 soldiers. dispatched to Dharali, had helped rescue around twenty people who survived the mud flow. “A huge landslide has struck Dharali … triggering a sudden flow of water and debris”said the army.
A large part of the city has been overwhelmed, and in places, the mud reached the roofs of the houses. “Research. rescue efforts are underway, and all the available means deployed to locate and evacuate people devastating mud flow ravages this always trapped”said Suneel Bartwal army spokesperson.
The head of regional government Pushkar Singh Dhami said that the flood was due to sudden and intense precipitation. The Indian weather services had issued an alert due to heavy rains in the Uttarakhand. adding that it has recorded 21 cm of precipitation in isolated areas of this state.
The deadly floods and the landslides are common during the monsoon season from June to September in India. Experts claim that climate change increases their intensity and frequency.
“These devastating losses (…) must be our last alarm signal”said activist Harjeet Singh, from the Satat Sampaada Climate Foundation in New Delhi. “Global warming intensifies our monsoons with extreme rains. while in the field, our policies of deforestation of hills, non-scientific and unsustainable construction and stifling of rivers in the name of an alleged + development + destroy our natural defenses”according devastating mud flow ravages this to him. “This tragedy is a deadly cocktail”he says.
The United Nations Meteorological Agency (OMM) indicated last year that increasingly intense floods. droughts are “An alarm signal” From what awaits the populations at the time of climate change, which makes the water cycle of the planet more unpredictable.
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