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STORY: Flash floods and landslides in Pakistan’s northwest have killed more than 300 people after days of heavy monsoon rains.Homes, roads, and bridges were swept away as an intense downpour struck the hilly region,
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.
Experts in meteorology have dismissed the theory of `Cloudburst’ as reason behind recent devastating floods in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and
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Press Trust of India on MSNKishtwar cloudburst: Death toll rises to 64 as rescue operations enter 6th day
Chisoti (JK): The body of a woman was recovered in the 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.
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Khaleej Times on MSNPhotos: Pakistan cloudburst survivors claw through rubble after deadly floods
In just minutes, a torrent of water and rocks swept down on the village of Dalori, destroying at least 15 houses, damaging several others and killing nine people
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.
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.
LAHORE: Chief Minister Punjab Maryam Nawaz Sharif has directed all stakeholders to take emergency measures in view
Due to severe weather and recent cloudburst tragedies in Jammu and Kashmir, the Doda district administration has curtailed the Kailash Kund Yatra in B
When massive boulders, giant conifer trees from mountains came crashing down with mounds of slush, it flattened the yatra base camp at Chisoti in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar and reduces most of the village into rubble.