Updated on: August 17, 2025 09:30 AM IST
J&K: another cloudburst killed in Kathua
Officials said on Sunday that at least four people were killed and six were injured in flash floods after a suspected cloudburst in Ghati village in Katua district of Jammu and Kashmir. This is only a few days later when a similar incident in Kishtwar claimed at least 60 lives.
A family was also buried under the rubble after hitting a place in a place called Juthana Jod near Ghati in Sundays of Sunday. It was around the same time when the suspected Claudbsts saw the village by reaching a remote village in Rajbagh area of the district, and two other places nearby.
Inspector Ajay Singh of the police station of Rajbagh area said, “Incidents took place between 3.30 and 4 pm,” advance parties have reached the area. ,
A joint team of police and state disaster response forces (SDRF) has ambushed to join the local people in rescue efforts. Officials told PTI that the bodies of four persons were recovered, while six were rescued in an injured condition.
Waterfall at police station
Officials told HT that heavy rains received heavy rains due to heavy rains in Sahar Khad and Ujdis.
Railway tracks were damaged and traffic on main roads including national highways in the area was also affected.
The police station in Kathua also saw the major waterfall.
The news agency reported that Landslides also said to Bagard and Changda villages, which were under the jurisdiction of Kathua police station and Dilwan-Hutli at Lakhanpur police station, but there was no major reports of loss, the news agency said.
Earlier, at least 60 people, most of them, were killed in flash floods on Machot Mata Yatra in Chasoti village in Kishtar district of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday afternoon.
