Flash flood in Indian Kashmir leaves at least 56 dead and scores missing | India
After a sudden rain storm in the Indian Kashmir, at least 56 people died and 80 lost.
The incident in the Kishtwar district Chashoti town occurred at a break point on the way to a pilgrimage. Days ago, a flood and sludge shift swallowed a village in the Uttarakhand province of Himalaya.
According to an official, Tufan washed a community cuisine and a security pole in the village, a pit stop along the pilgrimage road to the Temple of Machail Mata. “At lunch, many pilgrims gathered and washed,” he said.
Machail Yatra Trail is a popular way to the Temple of Himalayan, the high altitude of Machail Mat, who honored Durga, the Hindu goddess, and the pilgrims enters the temple from Chashoti, where the roads of the vehicles end.
“The news is terrible and true, the news is slow in the area where the cloud explosion hit the cloud explosion,” he said.
Television images showed that the pilgrims cry as they were flooded to the village.
Mohammad IRSHAD, the best disaster management official, said that 56 bodies were rescued from the site before the stopping efforts to rescue during the night.
Authorized, 80 people were lost and 300 were rescued, 50 were seriously injured and sent to nearby hospitals, he said.
Local officials, the death fee will increase, he said.
Kishtwar region section of the commissioner Ramesh Kumar, Anı news agency in his statement, local time at 11.30 at the disaster, local police and disaster intervention authorities reached the scene, he said.
Kumar, “Ordu Air Force teams were also activated. Search and rescue operations continue,” he said.
According to the Indian Meteorological Department, a cloud explosion is a sudden, intense health of the rain than 100 mm (4in), which can trigger sudden floods, landslides and destruction in the mountainous areas during monsoon.
The Local Weather Office in Srinagar envisaged intense shower for various regions in Kashmir, including Kishtwar on Thursday. The inhabitants urged to stay away from loose structures, electrical poles and old trees because there were probability of sludge slip and flash floods.
With Reuters and Agency France-Presse
