How the government covered up the severity of Sikkim floods by blaming them on a ‘cloudburst’

Upadhyaya, Himanshu (2023) How the government covered up the severity of Sikkim floods by blaming them on a ‘cloudburst’. Scroll.in.

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In the early hours of October 4, hours before news broke of flash floods and a dam burst in Sikkim, social media users put out posts wondering what had happened. It was only much later in the day that news reports began trickling in that the severe floods had been triggered by a glacial lake outburst flood, known as a GLOF, in North Sikkim’s South Lhonak Lake.

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Upadhyaya, Himanshu

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