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At Least 30 Dead, 170 Missing in India Glacier Dam Incident

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   Rescuers are still working Tuesday to find at least 35 Indian
   construction workers trapped in a tunnel, two days after the
   hydroelectric dam they were building was swept away by a wall of water
   from a collapsed glacier.

   Officials said the death toll rose to at least 30, and the trapped
   workers are among at least 170 people who were still unaccounted for
   after a section of glacier from Nanda Devi, India's second highest
   peak, collapsed, sending water from a glacial lake cascading down the
   Dhauliganga Rver Sunday.

   The wall of water broke apart bridges, cut off villages and scarred
   tracts of mountainside.

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