Sudden, intense rain on iiojk leaves 34 dead, more than 200 missing

• The disaster follows the recent flood and mud at Uttarakhand.
• Community cuisines for pilgrims washed away from flood waters.
• It is a second such disaster in the Himalayas in just over a week.

Srinagar: At least 34 people died and more than 200 were missing after a sudden rain in Indian illegal occupied jam and Kashmir (Iiojk), officials said the second such disaster in the Himalayas in just over a week.

The incident happened in the city of Chasoti in the Kishtwar area, a stoppage on a popular pilgrimage route. It comes just more than a week after a heavy flood and mud understood an entire village in the state of the Himalayas of Uttarakhand.

The flood is rinsing a community cuisine and a security position created in the village, a pit stop along the pilgrimage route to Machail Mata Temple, one of the officials who refused to be named because it was not authorized to speak in the media.

“A large number of pilgrims had gathered for lunch and washed away,” the official said.

“The news is gloomy and accurate, verified information from the cloudburst area is slow at arrival,” said Omar Abdullah, head of Minister Iiojk in a position in X.

TV plans have shown that pilgrims were shouting with fear as the water flooded the village.

The disaster took place at 11.30am. Local time, Ramesh Kumar, the director of the Kishtwar Region Committees, told the news agency AniAdding that local police and disaster reaction had arrived on stage.

“Air Force military groups have also been activated. Search and rescue work is in progress,” Kumar said.

A renal curl, according to the Indian meteorological section, is a sudden, intense rain over 100 mm (4 inches) of rain in just one hour that can cause sudden floods, landslides and disasters, especially in mountainous areas.

The local weather office in Srinagar foresaw a strong shower for several areas in Kashmir on Thursday, including Kishtwar, asking residents to stay away from loose structures, electric poles and old trees, as there was a chance of mud and flood.