At least four people are confirmed dead, and almost a hundred are missing, after a flash flood wiped out the small riverside village of Dharali in northern India on Tuesday.
The flood was triggered by a “cloudburst,” a sudden and intense burst of rain over a small area. Such periods of intense rainfall are not uncommon in the foothills of the Himalayas, where the steep terrain can produce terrifying walls of water that descend without warning upon low-lying villages.
“There are a lot of guest houses, restaurants and hotels there, because of which we immediately requested the army to aid rescue operations,” said Prashant Arya, district…
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