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.

At least five people died and many more were trapped under debris after a flash flood washed away a village in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand on Tuesday. Rescue teams from the State Disaster Response Force, the National Disaster Response Force, and the Indian Army were on scene in the Himalayan state looking for people feared trapped.

Rescuers are scouring a devastated Himalayan village in northern India's Uttarakhand state to find missing people, a day after flash floods killed at least four and left many others trapped under debris.