17 August 2025, 08:15 Heavy rainfall triggered landslides that devastated regions along the border between the two South Asian neighbors
Heavy rainfall and flash flooding devastated parts of India and Pakistan on Friday, resulting in over 280 fatalities and hundreds of people missing, according to officials from both nations. Rescuers successfully evacuated around 1,600 individuals from two mountainous districts in both countries.
Friday's flooding was preceded by a massive cloudburst that struck the village of Chasoti in India’s union territory of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday, killing 46 people and causing extensive damage, according to news agency PTI.
The flash floods swept away a makeshift market, a community kitchen, a security outpost, along with 16 residential houses, government buildings, three temples, four water mills, a 30-meter bridge, and more than a dozen vehicles. Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah put the death toll at 60 on Friday, with around 75 people missing.
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