Hopes fade that more survivors will be found in Indian flood disaster
by Hannah Ellis-Petersen South Asia correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#5E14E)
At least 170 missing four days after flash flood that wrecked two dams, with rescuers still at work
Four days after a catastrophic flash flood struck a valley in the Indian Himalayas, hopes were fading of finding any more survivors in the muddy wreckage of two dams that were devastated in the disaster.
So far 34 bodies have been recovered from the disaster and more than 170 are still missing. At least two bodies were discovered in the city of Rishikesh, which is about 150 miles downstream.
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