Name: インドで鉄砲水が発生、数十人が閉じ込められる恐れ｜BBCニュース (Dozens feared trapped as cloudburst triggers flash floods in India | BBC News)
Uploaded: 2025-08-06T14:22:48.000Z
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Now, rescue efforts are underway in northern India after flash flooding swept through villages and towns.

現在、インド北部では鉄砲水が村や町を襲い、救助活動が行われている。

Local reports say at least four people have died and dozens are missing.

地元の報道によれば、少なくとも4人が死亡、数十人が行方不明となっている。

Let me show you some videos shared online showing giant waves of water gushing through various rivers and sending tonnes of muddy water down the hilly terrains.

巨大な水の波がさまざまな河川を奔流し、何トンもの泥水が丘陵地帯を流れ落ちる様子を映した、ネット上で共有されているビデオをお見せしよう。

Rescue teams, including army personnel, have reached villages which are believed to have been bearing the brunt of those floods.

陸軍を含む救助隊が、洪水の被害を受けたと思われる村々に到着した。

With me is Reha Kansara from BBC Verify and thank you for being here with us.

BBCベリファイのリハ・カンサラです。

What more can you tell us about the scale and the damage of these floods and where exactly they actually are?

今回の洪水の規模や被害、また実際の被害状況について教えてください。

Well, as you said, there have been many villages that have been damaged in its path and we've been looking at multiple videos from social media,

あなたがおっしゃったように、その通り道で被害を受けた村はたくさんあり、私たちはソーシャルメディアから複数のビデオを見てきましたが、特に、言葉をうまく使えば、ソーシャルメディアに嵐を巻き起こしたものがあります。

but there is one in particular, for better use of words, that has taken social media by storm, and it's the one that you showed of a village being destroyed, literally submerged and destroyed as water gushed down.

Now, that video we verified using satellite imagery and weather data from today and it shows a village in Uttarakhand in northern India.

さて、この映像は今日の衛星画像と気象データを使って検証したもので、インド北部のウッタラーカンド州の村が映っている。

We have to think about its location in terms of it being in the Himalayas.

ヒマラヤ山脈にあるという点で、その位置について考えなければならない。

You know, it's a vast chain of mountains.

広大な山々が連なっているんだ。

Just imagine, like a waterfall coming down at you, taking out everything from its path.

滝のように流れ落ち、行く手からすべてを奪っていくのを想像してほしい。

What we know is that it has essentially destroyed that village.

私たちが知っているのは、その村が本質的に破壊されたということだ。

Eyewitnesses say from another village that it literally took out everything.

別の村の目撃者によれば、文字通りすべてを破壊したという。

Tell me a little more as we continue to look at these pictures and exactly as you described, they are devastating when you see them and they continue there.

これらの写真を見ながら、もう少し詳しく聞かせてほしい。

Where did the floods start and where has it actually spread to?

洪水はどこで始まり、どこに広がっているのか？

Well, it's been reported that it took place around 1.30pm local time in India.

インドの現地時間午後1時30分ごろの出来事だと伝えられている。

So that's roughly around 8am here in the UK.

ということは、英国ではだいたい午前8時頃ということになる。

And it was spurred on by a cloudburst over the Kirganga River.

それに拍車をかけたのが、キルガンガ川で発生した雲嵐だった。

A cloudburst is an extreme sudden downpour of rain over a small area in a very short period of time and that's what led to this flash flood.

クラウドバーストとは、ごく短時間に狭い範囲に突然降り注ぐ極端な豪雨のことで、これが今回の鉄砲水につながった。

And it's not something we've been, you know, this is what we've heard.

そして、これは我々が聞いてきたことではないんだ。

It's been reported by officials and local authorities, but it's not something we've been able to verify ourselves.

関係者や地元自治体から報告されているが、私たち自身は確認できていない。

Eyewitnesses again, as I've said, have told the BBC that the water has turned into a sludge, which is now blocking part of the region's main river and essentially it's created an artificial lake and has submerged vast areas of land.

目撃者がBBCに語ったところによると、水は汚泥と化し、この地域の主要河川の一部を塞いでいる。

Well, that's exactly what we're seeing in these pictures.

この写真に写っているのはまさにそれだ。

You can see the waters that you were describing, the sludge it's turned into and you can see the height there of that sludge and the rooftops of what presumably was a large village, that whole area trapped by all of this.

今お話になった水、ヘドロになった水、そしてそのヘドロの高さ、おそらく大きな村だったと思われる屋根の高さ、この地域全体がこのような状況に陥っているのがおわかりいただけると思います。

Tell me a little more about what is happening on the grounds, the various rescue efforts.

現地で何が起きているのか、さまざまな救助活動についてもう少し教えてほしい。

So rescue efforts and relief efforts are happening.

そのため、救助活動や救援活動が行われている。

I think the army and the paramilitaries in the area are taking care of it.

この地域の軍隊と準軍事組織が対処していると思う。

Some people are being treated for their injuries.

負傷して手当てを受けている人もいる。

What we know, what's been reported is that at least four people have died and about 50 people are missing.

少なくとも4人が死亡し、約50人が行方不明になっている。

What we also know is that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he put on X, formerly known as Twitter, he offered his condolences to people who've been affected by this tragedy.

また、ナレンドラ・モディ首相がX（以前はツイッターと呼ばれていた）で、この悲劇に見舞われた人々に哀悼の意を表したこともわかっている。

But this isn't, this is floods, floods like this, they happen very often in this region and we've been reporting on it for years.

しかし、これは洪水ではない。このような洪水は、この地域ではよく起こることで、私たちは何年もそれを報道してきた。

So what we do also know is that compared to the past, not as many people have been affected in the same way that would have been affected.

つまり、過去に比べれば、同じような影響を受けた人はそれほど多くないということだ。

So there is an upside despite the downside.

だから、マイナス面はあってもプラス面もある。

That's about all the devastation that we're seeing in those pictures.

そう、写真に写っているような惨状にもかかわらず、だ。

Thank you very much for taking us through all of that.