![]() ![]() I took everyone and ran towards the jungle with my family. Our children are small and my wife was not able to run. That's according to government officials who said on Friday that rescue and relief teams were struggling as some areas were totally cut off.It was one of the worst disasters in the region in more than 50 years and scientists said residents could have had more time to evacuate if an early detection system had been fully operationally.Officials involved with the early warning system, which had been in the works, told Reuters that a camera to monitor the lake's level and weather instruments was just installed last month.One scientist taking part called it “absurd” and “bad luck” that this deadly incident happened now.He said they had planned to add a tripwire sensor that would trigger if the lake was about to burst.That would typically be connected to an alert system that would warn residents to immediately evacuate but the Indian government was not prepared to do that this year.The system would have had a warning time of 90 minutes according to simulations carried out by scientists during the planning stages.Residents here including Javed Ansari got much less time to evacuate."Some people said the dam is about to collapse, some said it had collapsed, this and that. ![]() STORY: Dozens of people have been killed and many more remain missing after a glacial lake burst its banks and triggered flash floods in the Indian Himalayas.
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