• The Indian army uses dogs, drones and machinery to find missing people after sudden floods kill four and leave more than 50 not accounted for for
• China evacuates more than 75,000 parts of the south, since heavy rains cause landslides, floods
New Delhi/Beijing: Mortal floods fed by the torrential rains of the Monzón have devastated parts of India and China, killing several people and leaving dozens disappeared or trapped as rescue teams in both nations ran to find survivors, authorities said on Wednesday.
In the Indian Himalayas, the army deployed tracker dogs, drones and heavy equipment that move on Earth to look for dozens of people missing one day after the sudden floods devastated by a mountain valley.
At least four people were killed and more than 50 have no account after a wall of muddy water and starry debris against the city of Dharali in the state of Uttarakhand, rescue officials said.
The Indian army said the rescue efforts were rushed.
“Additional army columns have been transferred, along with army tracker dogs, drones, logistics drones, earth movement equipment, etc., to accelerate efforts,” said the army.
The rains of the torrential monsoon have hindered the rescue, with limited communication and damaged telephone lines.
However, the number of missing was reduced from about 100 on Tuesday night when the soldiers arrived at the cemented people.
“The search for the missing is ongoing,” said Mohsen Shahedi of the National Disaster Response Force.
Shahedi said more than 50 people were missing in Dharali, while 11 soldiers were not told by the nearby town of Harsil.
The videos transmitted in the Indian media showed a wave of muddy water that swept the several -story apartments blocks in the tourist region on Tuesday afternoon.
SUMWAL adds to Indian Express His father saw the flood hitting Dharali with a “rumbing noise” of a town uphill.
“They tried to scream, but they couldn’t hear,” said Semwal.
“People could not understand what was happening. The waters of the flood hit them in 15 seconds.”
The Prime Minister of Uttarakhand, Pushkar Singh Dhami, said that the flood was caused by an intense “cloud bubble” of rain and that rescue teams were displayed “on a war footing.”
A large part of the city was flooded by the mud, with officials estimating that it had 50 feet deep in places, swallowing some buildings completely.
Climate exchange experts warned that the disaster was a “attention call.”
The Hydrologist Manish Shrestha said that the 270 millimeters (10 inches) of rain that fell within 24 hours was an “extreme event.”
“Such intense rainy events are becoming more common and could be linked to climate change,” said Shrestha, of the International Center for Integrated Mountain Development based in Nepal headquarters.
Harjet Singh, a Climate activist of the Satat Sampada Climate Foundation in New Delhi, said the problem was exacerbated by the “non -scientific, unsustainable and reckless construction” in the name of development.
“Global warming is surpassing our monsoons with extreme rain,” said Singh. “The devastating loss … It must be our last attention call.”
China evacuates thousands
Meanwhile, tens of thousands of people have been evacuated when the heavy rains are in southern China, flood houses and trigger landslides, state media said on Wednesday.
In the province of Southern Guangdong, a landslide in its capital, Guangzhou, caught 14 people.
Later, a person was confirmed dead, state station CCTV saying.
According to Wednesday, more than 75,000 people in Guangdong had been evacuated by noon, according to CCTV The images showed the people who vade in waters to the waist and clung to a submerged car.
Of the 14 people trapped by the landslide that hit the Dayuan village of Guangzhou, around 8:30 am, seven had been rescued and “they were not in immediate danger,” CCTV reported.
The body of an eighth person recovered later at night, and rescue efforts for the disappeared continued.
The authorities activated an emergency response in Guangdong due to severe floods.
The central government is also assigning 100 million yuan for recovery effort, stating that continuous rains had caused “low and loss of properties.”
The heavy rains in northern Beijing killed 44 people last month, with the rural suburbs of the capital hit the hardest.
A landslide in a town in the province of Hebei, which surrounds Beijing, killed eight other people.
Natural disasters are common in China, particularly in the summer, when some regions experience heavy rains, while others bake in the abrasing heat.
Posted in Dawn, August 7, 2025
