Indian rescue crews step up search operations days after deadly flash floods hit a Himalayan village:::: Dharali, India Drone footage showed houses in Dharali village buried in debris, with excavators removing boulders at the site of the mudslide.

Uttarakhand, the mountainous northern state that hosts Dharali, has been devastated by cloudbursts before. A June 2013 cloudburst killed over 6,000 people in Uttarakhand and surrounding states, becoming the country's worst natural disaster in ten years. In 2021, flash flooding triggered by a cloudburst killed over 200.