At least 56 people were killed and around 150 were injured, when flood-waters hit a remote Himalayan mountain village in Indian-influenced Kashmir on Thursday-the second fatal flood disaster in this month.
Local authorities suddenly reported “Cloudbers” near Chosti village in Kishtwar district, where more than 100 Hindu pilgrims were the routes to the nearby Machil Mata pilgrimage site.
Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said in a statement, “The news is serious, while disaster management officials said 50 of the injured were” seriously “injuries.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised that “all possible assistance would be provided to those people.”
The local NDTV broadcaster said the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and army units were on their way to the region, which is more than 200 kilometers (125 miles) from the road from the main city of Srinagar.
The news footage featured water, damaged houses and vehicles and mud and rock debris.
Officials said that a large meakshift kitchen installed for pilgrims – which was allegedly not registered with local authorities – was completely washed.
The district commissioner of the installment Pankaj Kumar Sharma had earlier warned that “more dead bodies are being found.”
How common floods are in the area?
The disaster was weakened exactly a week after another Himalayan city was effective, the toll of death in Dharli in the Indian state of Uttarakhand on August 5 is expected to exceed 70, but the officials are still confirming.
India’s floods and landslides are common during June to September monsoon season, but experts say climate change, in collaboration with insufficient schemes, is increasing their frequency and severity.
The UNS World Meteorological Organization stated last year that rapidly rapid floods and droughts should be understood as “signs of crisis” as to what to come because clims change makes the planet’s water cycle ever more unpredictable.
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