Pakistan, floods and cloudburst
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About 20 km from the cloudburst-hit Chositi, the main base camp for pilgrims visiting the Machail Mata temple in Kishtwar district tells a different but equally grim story.
Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar district continues search operations for missing persons after a devastating cloudburst. Death toll reaches 65.
Deadly flash floods and landslides in Pakistan’s northwest have claimed over 300 lives after days of relentless monsoon rains. Homes, roads, and bridges were swept away in a matter of hours, with officials blaming a rare weather event known as a cloudburst. Alice Rizzo reports.
With the recovery of three more bodies from the debris on Tuesday, the death toll in cloudburst-hit Chishoti village has mounted to 64, said officials.
Leading meteorologists are raising red flags over the growing misuse of the term “cloudburst” in Pakistan’s media and
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Press Trust of India on MSNKishtwar cloudburst: Death toll climbs to 64 after woman’s body recovered
Body of a woman was recovered in this cloudburst-hit village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district, taking the death toll to 64, officials said, as the extensive rescue and relief operation entered the sixth day on Tuesday (August 19, 2025).
In the middle of the night, by the glow of their mobile phones, rescuers and villagers dug through the concrete remains of flattened houses after massive rocks crashed down on a remote Pakistani village following a cloudburst.
Anupam Kher expressed grief over the recent natural disasters in Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, and Uttarakhand. He attributed the devastation t
The calamity reportedly took place in the remote Lagghati region of Kullu at around 1.30 am. No casualties have been reported yet in the incident.
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One more cloudburst in Kishtwar, no loss of life reported so far
Even as the district is yet to cope with the massive destruction and grave loss of lives in terms of huge numbers, one more cloudburst struck Khanpura area near Mugalmaidan in Kishtwar during the early hours today.