RAMBAN — More than 100 people were rescued after heavy rain triggered a flash flood in a village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district early on Sunday, officials said. The incessant rain also triggered landslides and mudslides at nearly a dozen places between Nashri and Banihal along the strategic Jammu-Srinagar National Highway, prompting traffic to […]
BANIHAL — A man was washed away in flash floods triggered by a cloudburst in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district on Monday evening, officials said. The incident took place in the Bankoot area of Banihal tehsil, when a cloudburst caused flash floods that washed away a JCB machine along with its operator, they said. Officials […]
BANDIPORA — Several footbridges, link roads were damaged and water entered several houses after cloudbursts triggered flash floods in the upper reaches of north Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Thursday, officials said. An official told the news agency Kashmir News Observer that a cloudburst hit Arin and Dardpora villages today morning, damaging several footbridges as well […]
KULGAM — Flash flood triggered by a cloudburst created panic in some villages of Devsar in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Wednesday. An official said that a cloudburst occurred in the upper reaches of Lammar-Hallan area in Devsar today afternoon. “Soon after the cloudburst, there was a sudden downflow of water, creating panic in the […]