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At least 11 people have died and several others are missing after landslides and cloudbursts, triggered by continuous rainfall, struck parts of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Saturday (Aug 30).
In Reasi district, seven members of a family, including five children aged between 4 and 12, were killed when their house collapsed in a landslide early Friday. Their bodies were recovered from the debris the next morning.
In Ramban, at least four people lost their lives and one person went missing after a cloudburst on Saturday. Several houses were also damaged in the incident.
Rescue teams have launched search operations to trace those missing
The sudden deluge swept away two houses and a school building. Rescue teams have been deployed, and efforts are on to trace the missing.
The incident comes a day after cloudbursts in Uttarakhand left five dead and 11 missing, while in Manali, parts of the town along the river were washed away. The Jammu-Srinagar highway also remained blocked for the fifth consecutive day.