GANGTOK, August 05: The disappearance of a Lake at Uttarey in West Sikkim within a span of 15 minutes yesterday has left most of the villagers baffled. Located about a kilometre from the Uttarey Bazaar, the waters of Gompa Dara Lake suddenly disappeared along with the huge bursting noise at about 12 noon yesterday. That has also left a lot of people worried. According to the residents, who went to the lakeside immediately after the incident, the oblong shape lake had a huge crack in the middle of the bed. Villagers claim that all the waters of the Lake drained into that crack. “A boat in the lake also flowed into the crack,” one of the villagers told SIKKIM EXPRESS. Not being able to see where the water was draining, the anxious villagers believed that some natural calamities like flood or landslides may occur in two villages of Mukarung and Bandukey, which is located just below the lake. Experts have opined that the incident seemed to have been a part of global warming and...
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