At least 40 people have been killed in the floods that struck northeastern India following heavy rains on a glacial lake in the Himalayas, according to government officials who spoke to Agence France-Presse on Friday. A senior official in the state of Sikkim, V. B. Pathak, told Agence France-Presse, "Nineteen bodies have been recovered." Shama Parveen, a district magistrate in the neighboring state of West Bengal, stated that 21 additional bodies have been recovered in her jurisdiction over the past three days. AFP