It was a shocking scene captured on video: a torrent of water, mud and rock slamming into the Himalayan village of Dharali with such a force that it knocked buildings from their foundations and buried homes up to their rooftops in an instant.

In a video that circulated on social media and that CBC News has verified, you can see residents in the northeastern Indian state of Uttarakhand attempting to flee as the torrent came crashing down from the mountains on Tuesday.

BIG DISASTER <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/uttarakhnd?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#uttarakhnd</a> के उत्तरकाशी के धराली गंगोत्रीधाम से पहले का यात्रा पड़ाव में भीषण आपदा, खीर गंगा में बादल फटने से बहा गांव <a href="https://twitter.com/News18_UK?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@News18_UK</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/AnupamT

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