India Troops Seek Stranded People as Flood Deaths May Top 1,000
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India’s military continued working today to evacuate thousands still stranded in the foothills of the Himalayas as the death toll rose to more than 750 after torrential rains in the region triggered flash floods.
Narrow valleys in the mountainous north, where shrines lure tens of thousands of Sikh and Hindu pilgrims during the summer months, remain cut off six days after torrents surged through the rocky canyons. Helicopters continue to drop supplies in remote areas of Uttarakhand state, where roads were swept away.