Following the recent flash floods that occurred on October 4, 2023, about fifty-six (56) people are confirmed dead in India’s North-East region as of Saturday, 7th October, 2023.
The Indian army warned that munitions washed away by the flood is liable of causing public safety risk.

Violent torrents struck Sikkim State on Wednesday after the sudden bursting of a high-altitude glacial lake.

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Climate scientists warn that this will be a recurrent disaster across the Himalayas as global temperatures rise and ice melts which is dangerous.
Anilraj Rai, the State Relief Commissioner said to AFP, “So far 26 bodies have been found in Sikkim.

Thirty more bodies had been recovered from the Teesta river basin by search and rescue teams downstream in neighbouring West Bengal state, Jalpaiguri District Police Superintendent K. Umesh Ganpat.

“The river stretches up to 86 kilometres,” he added. “The search operation is continuing.”
Seven Indian army soldiers posted in Sikkim are among the deaths recorded so far. Sikkim is India’s remote area with Nepal and China all having a sizeable military presence.

India’s Defence Ministry said in a statement that the floods had washed away “firearms and explosives” from military camps.
The army has “established lookout teams all along the river” to recover loose ordnance.

Two people had been killed and four others injured by a mortar shell that exploded while flowing through the flood waters in West Bengal.
Roads, bridges and telephone lines have been destroyed across much of the state, complicating evacuations and efforts to communicate with thousands cut off from the rest of the country.
More than 1,200 houses had been damaged by the floods, according to the latest Sikkim government bulletin.

More than 2,400 people had been rescued while nearly 7,000 others were taking shelter at makeshift relief camps set up at schools, government offices and guesthouses, the bulletin said.