JAMMU — Seven persons, including four women, were rescued after they were left stranded in the Ujh river due to a sudden rise in the water level following incessant rains in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, police said. The rescue operation was launched after police post Nagri was informed that seven civilians […]
JAMMU — Two men are feared to have drowned in the Chenab river while taking a bath here on Sunday, officials said. Police, along with SDRF, NDRF and local volunteers, have launched a joint rescue operation to locate the missing youth – Gajay Singh (30) and Rakesh Singh (35), both residents of Khour area of […]
JAMMU — A body has been recovered after a couple was swept away in a flash flood triggered by heavy rainfall in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur district on Thursday evening, officials said. The incident occurred in Kaghote panchayat of the Ramnagar area after intense rains triggered a sudden flash flood, they said. According to locals, […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — Jammu and Kashmir Police, in coordination with the Civil Administration, on Wednesday rescued and evacuated eight nomadic families along with their livestock from the higher reaches of Chattergul in Ganderbal district after incessant rainfall and landslides rendered the area vulnerable and posed a serious threat to their safety. According to a police […]
JAMMU — At least 14 people stranded in swollen rivers in various parts of Jammu and Rajouri districts were rescued safely on Sunday, officials said. In a swift and coordinated rescue operation lasting several hours, police and the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) successfully rescued three boys stranded in the River Tawi near Peer Kho […]
JAMMU — Four children, who went for bathing in the Tawi River, were rescued after a sudden rise in the river’s water level left them stranded near the Peer Kho Temple here on Saturday, police said. The Jammu Police and the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) launched a coordinated rescue operation to save the four […]
SRINAGAR — The Indian Army has rescued civilians who were stranded in the Kishanganga River due to strong currents in the Gurez sector of Jammu and Kashmir’s Bandipora, officials said on Tuesday. The civilians were trapped in their vehicles in the Chakwali area of north Kashmir’s Gurez Valley after their vehicles became trapped in strong […]
ANANTNAG — Two siblings drowned after slipping into the Jhelum River in South Kashmir’s Anantnag District on Monday. An official told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that the duo drowned after accidentally falling into the river while washing livestock in the Padshahibagh village of Bijbehara town this afternoon. “One of the brothers slipped, and […]
JAMMU — The bodies of two teenage boys, who drowned in the Tawi River here on Sunday, were retrieved by rescuers on Monday, while a search was underway to trace a third boy who also drowned with them, officials said. The three boys – Bavish Koul (15), Sonam Dutt (16) and Aditya Pandit (15), all […]
JAMMU — Three boys reportedly drowned in the Tawi River here on Sunday, prompting the authorities to launch a large-scale rescue operation, officials said. The three boys – Bavish Koul, Sonam Dutt and Aditya Pandit, all belonging ot the Kashmiri Pandit community – were swept away by a strong current near the Nagrota Sainik School […]