At least 49 persons are still feared missing as rescue operations entered their fifth day on Saturday following flash floods and landslides in Uttarakhand’s Uttarkashi district earlier this week, reported PTI.

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.