India, Aug. 7 -- Rescuers in Uttarkashi dug through mounds of mud and debris on Wednesday to unearth bodies and locate potential survivors, a day after flash floods ploughed through a clutch of villages in the upper reaches of Uttarakhand, wrecking dozens of buildings and sweeping away several people.

Relief teams recovered two bodies on Wednesday and personnel on the ground warned that this number would likely spiral. The toll from the diaster remained unclear.

The trigger for Tuesday's carnage, initially seen as cloudbursts, was unclear; experts from the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said they were examining the possibility that a glacier collapse upstream of the channel feeding Kheer Ganga set off the mayhem.

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