The death toll in India from a flash flood caused by a Himalayan glacier breaking off rose to at least 26 Monday, as rescuers continue searching for about 200 missing people, according to officials.

The disaster started at about 10:45 a.m. local time, when part of the Nanda Devi glacier broke away from a fragile area of Uttarakhand, the northern India state that borders China and Nepal.

A man reacts after he was pulled out from beneath the ground by Indo Tibetan Border Police personnel during rescue operations after a portion of Nanda Devi glacier broke off in Tapovan area of ...

Even so, researchers at the Divecha Centre for Climate Change at Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru used glacier thickness mapper data to detect a sub-surface lake containing 4.5 million cubic ...

Indo Tibetan Border Police officials after part of the Nanda Devi glacier split on Sunday. The nearby Rishiganga hydropower plant, meanwhile, was destroyed.

A portion of a glacier, called Nanda Devi, broke off in the Chamoli district of the north Indian state of Uttarakhand resulting in a massive flood that killed 204 hit two hydropower projects and ...

Lakshman Jhula, a suspension bridge across the River Ganges, is seen after it is closed as a precautionary measure in Rishikesh, India, after a portion of Nanda Devi glacier broke off in Tapovan ...

Even so, researchers at the Divecha Centre for Climate Change at Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru used glacier thickness mapper data to detect a sub-surface lake containing 4.5 million cubic ...