"As of now, around 203 people are missing," state chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat said. 'Everything was swept away'Videos on social media showed water surging through a small dam site, washing away construction equipment and bringing down small bridges. "Everything was swept away, people, cattle and trees," Sangram Singh Rawat, a former village council member of Raini, the site closest to the Rishiganga project, told media. He said rescuers had gone 150 metres into the tunnel but debris and slush were slowing progress. Rescue team members work outside a tunnel in Tapovan, in the northern state of Uttarakhand.

Source: CBC News February 08, 2021 13:32 UTC