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8 February 2021 / Katmandu Post / Chandan Kumar Mandal
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Uttarakhand glacier avalanche raises alarm for similar devastation for Nepal sooner or later

Nanda Devi

On Sunday torrents of water, rock and dust hurtled down a mountain valley in the Uttarakhand state of Northern India. A Himalayan glacier broke below 7,816-metre Nanda Devi, India’s second-highest peak, sweeping away a small hydroelectric project and damaging a bigger one further downstream. One hundred to 150 people were feared dead.


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