RAMBAN, AUGUST 29: The body of a six-year-old girl was recovered in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district, increasing the death toll from Monday’s cloudburst to three. Rescue teams are still searching for four missing persons after flash floods struck several villages in Rajgarh tehsil.
The cloudburst occurred in Panchayats Kumate, Dhraman and Halla in Rajgarh tehsil late Monday afternoon, causing flash floods in Tanger and Dadi streams, they said.
Seven people of three different families were reported missing in the flash floods, Tehsildar Rajgarh Major Singh told to a national news agency.
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Shazia Banoo’s body was recovered by rescuers three kilometers downstream from her Dungar Dhandla village on Wednesday afternoon, the officials said.
Earlier, the bodies of two persons – Yasir Ahmad (20) of Gadgram and Khalid Ahmed Parihar (12) of Suli-Kumate — were retrieved on Monday and Tuesday.
Tehsildar, who is supervising the rescue operation, said the rescue teams comprising police, State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) and local volunteers, are making all out efforts to locate four other missing persons – Yasir’s mother Naseema Begum (42) and six-year-old sister Shazia Banoo and Khalid’s mother Gulshan Begum (42) and eight-year-old sister Seerat Banoo.
At least four government schools and a couple of other structures also suffered damages, while three parked private vehicles were washed away by the flash floods, the officials said. –(PTI)
