At least 40 people have been killed in flooding in India's Himalayan region, officials have said.
The flood began on Wednesday when the waters of a glacial lake breached a hydroelectric dam, triggering flash flooding in towns in the Lachen Valley, in the Sikkim region of northeastern India.
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