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The Silkyara Bend–Barkot tunnel was being constructed by contentious [10] Navayuga Engineering Construction Limited (NECL) under National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (NHIDCL) [11] as part of the Char Dham project, intended to connect important Hindu pilgrim sites in Uttarakhand, North India, with two-lane, all-weather paved roads. [12]
Thirty-six people were killed and 27 others were injured in the crash. [11] [12] [13] Two of those injured died on November 12 after being hospitalized after the crash, bringing the final death toll to 38. [6]
On 3 June 2024 at around 14:00 (GMT+5:30), heavy snowfall struck the mountaineer group after reaching Lambtal and as they moved to Sahastra Tal peak at an elevation of about 12,000 feet, which intensified into blizzard conditions that lasted for four hours. [3]
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1991 Uttarkashi earthquake; 1996 Haridwar and Ujjain stampedes; 1998 Malpa landslide; 1999 Chamoli earthquake; 2012 Himalayan flash floods; 2013 North India floods; 2016 Uttarakhand forest fires; 2020 Uttarakhand forest fires; 2021 Uttarakhand flood; 2022 Uttarakhand avalanche; 2022 Uttarakhand bus accident; 2023 Himalayan floods
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A crash on the Dschang Cliff, West Region killed 53 people after a truck illegally carrying fuel collided with a bus. [309] February 11 – United States – Icy conditions from an ice storm caused a massive 133-vehicle pileup on Interstate 35W in Fort Worth, Texas, killing six people and injuring 95. February 16 – India – Sidhi bus accident.
According to BBC News, four scientists from the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun, India flew over the site in a helicopter, took photographs, and gathered other data; they consider the hanging glacier that cracked and plunged into the Rishiganga basin, to have been attached to a subsidiary peak, Raunthi, 5,600 m (18,372 ft), just ...