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Himalayan glacier bursts in India; dozens feared dead

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    REPORTER: We start with the latest on our
    breaking news, India fearing dozens
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    of people are dead after part of a
    Himalayan glacier collapsed.
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    It has sent a torrent of water rushing
    down a river where a hydroelectric
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    power station and several villages are
    positioned.
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    Several communities have been put
    on high alert for flooding, and people
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    are being evacuated further downstream.
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    We have a look at it on the map, we're
    talking very Northern parts of India here,
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    up through close to the
    Himalayas, obviously.
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    This is Rishiganga, which is one of the
    rivers which have been affected.
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    And as the map swings around you'll get
    an idea, first of all, of the proximity of
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    the Himalayas there from where the
    glacier has broken off,
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    and then as you come down the Rishiganga
    River, we find, uh, one smaller dam there,
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    and then further down a large
    hydroelectric project further downstream
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    in one of the other rivers, I've just lost
    it at the moment-- no, there it is.
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    Uh, coming down here as well, the
    Tapovan Mandir.
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    So, a lot of villagers and, as we said,
    two big hydroelectric projects are in
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    the path of all of that water.
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    Elizabeth Puranam is our correspondent
    in New Delhi, she's on the line just now.
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    What more are you hearing this hour, Liz?
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Himalayan glacier bursts in India; dozens feared dead
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