Tapovan, India — A whistle turned into a roar of water that trapped a dozen men in a Himalayan tunnel after a glacier burst in northern India, but Rajesh Kumar lived to tell the tale.
Eighteen people were confirmed dead on Monday and at least 200 others missing after the glacier broke off a mountainside, triggering a flash flood through a valley in the northern state of Uttarakhand.
Floodwaters swamped a nearby hydro complex where Kumar and his colleagues were working 300 meters (984 feet) inside a tunnel.
“We didn’t think we were going to make it,” the 28-year-old told AFP from his hospital bed.
“Suddenly there was a sound of whistling… there was shouting, people wer…
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