Uttarakhand disaster: Glacier fracture triggered tragedy, shows initial studies

“The DRDO team is analysing all available data but an initial aerial survey indicates that a hanging glacier broke away from the main glacier triggering, the tragedy. The initial assessment is that the breakaway glacier formed a lake in the narrow valley after falling. This later burst causing the damage,” Dr LK Sinha, told ET.

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