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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Flash floods triggered by torrential rains have killed over 280 people in India and Pakistan and left scores of others missing, officials said Friday, as rescuers brought to safety some 1,600 people from two mountainous districts in the neighboring countries.
Flooding began a day earlier in Indian-controlled Kashmir and spread to the north and northwest in Pakistan, triggered by sudden, intense downpours over small areas. The floods and subsequent landslides injured dozens of people and forced the evacuation and rescue of thousands of others, particularly in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
Such cloudbursts are increasingly common in India’s Himalayan regions and Pakistan’s northern areas, and experts have said climate change is a contributing factor.
Leaders in both countries offered their condolences to the victims’ families and assured them of swift relief.
Dozens missing in remote Himalayan village
In Indian-controlled Kashmir, rescuers searched for missing people in the remote Himalayan village of Chositi after flash floods a day earlier left at least 60 people dead and at least 80 missing, officials said.
At least 300 people were rescued Thursday following a powerful cloudburst that triggered floods and landslides, but the operation was halted overnight. Officials said many missing people were believed to have been washed away, and the number of missing could increase.
Resident Harvinder Singh said he joined the rescue efforts immediately after the disaster and helped retrieve 33 bodies from the mud.
At least 50 seriously injured people were treated at hospitals, many of them rescued from a stream filled with mud and debris.
Chositi, in Kashmir’s Kishtwar district, is the last village accessible to motor vehicles on the route of an annual Hindu pilgrimage to a mountainous shrine at an altitude of 3,000 meters (9,500 feet). Officials said the pilgrimage, which began July 25 and was scheduled to end Sept. 5, was suspended.
The devastating floods swept away the main community kitchen for pilgrims, as well as dozens of vehicles and motorbikes. More than 200 pilgrims were in the kitchen at the time of the flood, which also damaged or washed away many of the homes clustered together in the foothills, officials said.
Sneha, who gave only one name, said her husband and a daughter were swept away. The two were having meals at the community kitchen while she and her son were nearby. The family had come for the pilgrimage, she said.
Authorities erected makeshift bridges Friday to help stranded pilgrims cross a muddy water channel and used dozens of earthmovers to shift boulders, uprooted trees, electricity poles and other debris. Nearly 4,000 pilgrims were evacuated, officials said.
Photos and videos on social media showed household goods strewn next to damaged vehicles and homes in the village.
Kishtwar district is home to multiple hydroelectric power projects, which experts have long warned pose a threat to the region’s fragile ecosystem.
More heavy rain and floods were forecast for the area.
Hundreds of tourists trapped by floods in Pakistan
In northern and northwestern Pakistan, flash floods killed at least 243 people, including 157 who died Friday in the Buner district in northwest Pakistan.
Mohammad Suhail told The Associated Press that dozens of people were still missing, and rescue operations were underway.
He said 78 bodies were recovered by midday Friday, and another 79 were pulled from the rubble of collapsed homes and flooded villages later.
“The death toll may rise as we are still looking for dozens of missing people,” Suhail said.
Dozens were injured as the deluge destroyed homes in villages in Buner, where authorities declared a state of emergency on Friday. Rescuers backed by boats and helicopters worked to reach stranded residents. Ambulances transported more than 100 bodies to hospitals, according to a government statement.
Bilal Faizi, a provincial emergency service spokesman in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, said rescuers worked for hours to save 2,000 tourists trapped by flash flooding and landslides in the Siran Valley in Mansehra district and elsewhere on Thursday.
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We are a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving the needs of our local and international community. We are providing food and shelter to those in need during the India Himalayan Region flood. We are committed to making a positive impact on the lives of those around us. By supporting Opulent Philanthropy Inc., you are supporting your community and helping to build a brighter future for all.
India, Himalayan Region Disaster Relief Fund: We have provided shelter and over a million meals during these disasters.
Every contribution, big or small, will bring much-needed assistance to families struggling in the aftermath of this disaster.
Here's how your donation can help:
$50 can provide a care package with essential supplies for a family in need.
$100 can help with funeral expenses.
$250 can help ensure a family displaced by the flood has access to food and shelter
$1,000 can help ensure a family displaced by the flood has long term access to food and shelter.
About 100 people missing as flash flood tears through town in northern India
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Dozens of people were missing after a fast-moving surge of water and mud smashed into a town in India’s Himalayan region on Tuesday, tearing down a mountain valley and demolishing buildings, killing at least five people.
Videos broadcast on Indian media showed a terrifying river of muddy water engulf the town of Dharali in Uttarakhand state on Tuesday afternoon, sweeping away entire homes and apartment blocks. In footage recorded at the scene, people could be seen screaming in fear as they tried to escape the surging flood waters.
Dozens in the village had been gathered in a temple for a festival as the wave of dark water and debris struck at high velocity.
The Indian defence minister, Sanjay Seth, confirmed that four people had been killed in the disaster, but officials feared the number could rise. Approximately 100 people were reported missing on Tuesday and scores remained unaccounted for and feared trapped in the mud, including about eight soldiers who were reported missing from a camp in the area.
“The number of missing persons is unknown. However, the relief efforts have continued through the night,” said the rescue leader, Colonel Harshvardhan, in a post on X on Wednesday. “We are trying to rescue people and take them to safety.”
The Uttarakhand state chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said rescue teams had been deployed “on a war footing”.
Dhami said the flood was caused by a sudden and intense “cloudburst”, calling the destruction “extremely sad and distressing”. The India Meteorological Department said it had recorded “extremely heavy” rainfall of about 21cm (8in) in some parts of Uttarakhand.
Overnight rescue efforts were hampered as heavy rain continued to fall and access remained challenging, as several key roads had washed away. Rivers across Uttarakhand were flowing above the danger mark on Wednesday, leading to concerns of further landslides and disasters in the area. The central water commission said that four rivers at five sites remained in a “severe flood situation”.
India’s army said 150 troops had reached the town, helping to rescue about 20 people who had survived the wall of freezing sludge. “A massive mudslide struck Dharali … triggering a sudden flow of debris and water through the settlement,” the army said.
Images released by the army, taken from the site after the main torrent showed swathes of the town swamped mud and deep debris, and a slow-moving muddy river still flowing through the town.
“Search and rescue efforts are ongoing, with all available resources being deployed to locate and evacuate any remaining stranded persons,” an army spokesperson, Suneel Bartwal, said.
The prime minister, Narendra Modi, expressed his condolences, and said that “no stone is being left unturned in providing assistance”.
Deadly floods and landslides are common during the monsoon season from June to September, but experts say the climate crisis, coupled with urbanisation, is increasing their frequency and severity.
The UN’s World Meteorological Organization said in 2024 that more intense floods and droughts are a “distress signal” for what can be expected as climate breakdown makes the planet’s water cycle ever more unpredictable.
Uttarakhand, which has mountainous and often unstable terrain, has faced several monsoon-related disasters in its recent history. In 2013, flash floods in Kedarnath killed 4,127 people and in 2021, a glacier burst triggered an avalanche in Chamoli, killing more than 200.
Harjeet Singh, a climate activist and founding director of Satat Sampada Climate Foundation, said the tragedy was caused by a “deadly cocktail”.
“Global warming is supercharging our monsoons with extreme rain, while on the ground, our own policies of cutting hills, unscientific, unsustainable and reckless construction, and choking rivers for so-called ‘development’ are destroying our natural defenses,” he said. “Are we not engineering our own disasters?”
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At least one passenger on board Air India Flight 171 to London Gatwick survived, local police said.
According to Reuters, senior police officer Vidhi Chaudhary said the man had been in seat 11A and added that there may be a few more survivors in the hospital.
The Hindustan Times named the survivor as a British national, Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, and said he was receiving treatment. What appears to be a copy of the flight manifest, shared by news agency IANS, lists Vishwash Kumar Ramesh as having been assigned seat 11A and boarded.
The Hindustan Times said it spoke to Ramesh in a local hospital and quoted him as saying: “Thirty seconds after takeoff, there was a loud noise and then the plane crashed. It all happened so quickly.”
Ramesh told the Hindustan Times that he had been visiting family and was returning to the UK with his brother, who had been sitting in a different row. He didn’t know if his brother had survived, he said.
He said the aircraft seemed to become stuck immediately after takeoff. The lights then came on, he said, and right after that it accelerated but seemed unable to gain height before it crashed.
He said the side of the plane where he was seated fell onto the ground floor of a building and there was space for him to escape after the door broke open. He unfastened his seat belt and forced himself out of the plane.
“When I opened my eyes, I realized I was alive,” he said. He said his hand was burned by the flames as he fled from the aircraft.
In a video circulated on social media, the sole survivor of Air India Flight 171 appears to limp away from the crash site, passing emergency workers and onlookers. Ramesh told reporters that he managed to leave through the emergency exit next to his seat, 11A, during a brief moment of possibility. But “I don’t know how I survived.
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Glacial lake burst in India leaving 100 missing and 19 dead. More than 100 people are missing in India’s northeast after heavy rain caused a glacial lake to burst, leading to flash floods which ripped through the Himalayan state of Sikkim Wednesday, killing at least 19 and washing away roads and bridges. A “sudden cloudburst” over Lhonak Lake, in the northern part of the state, sent fast-moving torrents of water surging down the Teesta River in Sikkim’s Lachen valley, raising water levels 15-20 feet higher than normal, the Indian Army said in a statement. A cloudburst is a very sudden and destructive rainstorm. Chungthang Dam, also known as the Teesta 3 dam and part of a major hydropower project in the state, was “washed away. Drinking water supplies and sewage treatment plants have been “totally damaged” across affected districts. Video from the north of the state shows a muddy deluge rapidly overflowing the river, and flooded houses caked in dirt and debris, while images show search teams using excavators to uncover army vehicles buried deep in the mud. Rescue and restorations operations are underway with both state and national disaster personnel involved. Known as the rooftop of the world, the ecologically sensitive Himalayan region is prone to flash floods and landslides, and flooding is not unusual in Sikkim, but scientists are clear that extreme weather is becoming more frequent and more intense as the human-caused climate crisis accelerates.
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