At least 140 people are still missing and the toll is expected to rise further, warned officials Eighty-two people have been confirmed dead in the Sikkim flash floods, with 32 bodies recovered from the hill state, 46 from West Bengal, and four in neighbouring Bangladesh, officials confirmed on Sunday evening, as the toll from the disaster skyrocketed amid protracted and arduous relief operations that involved rescuers combing through river-beds and debris caked in layers of silt. At least 140 people are still missing and the toll is expected to rise further, warned officials, explaining that the path of the Teesta river — which flows from Sikkim to West Bengal and eventually enters Bangladesh — meant that several bodies are likely to have been washed several hundreds of kilometres downstream.