Flash floods and landslides in northern India have killed at least 1,000 people.
The majority of the flooding has occurred in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand over the past week.
Thousands of people are missing or stranded and the toll is expected to rise. At this stage around 40,000 people are still stranded, and the floods have been described as a “national crisis.”
Most of the stranded were people on a pilgrimage known as Char Dham Yatra, which takes Hindus to four of the holiest shrines in Uttarakhand between May and November.
More than 40 helicopters were being used to rescue pilgrims from remote mountainous areas, according to Indian officials, but the terrain hampered the operations.
A rescue helicopter crashed Friday, but no one died, while trying to evacuate pilgrims trapped in a village near Kedarnath in Uttarakhand.
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