Overview
- Seven members of one family, including five children, died when a landslide flattened their home in Badder village of Reasi’s Mahore area around 3 a.m., officials said.
- In Ramban’s Rajgarh tehsil, a cloudburst washed away two houses and a school; officials later reported four dead with one person still missing as searches continued.
- Multi‑agency teams from the SDRF, NDRF, police, the army, and local volunteers are conducting rescue and relief operations, with district officials supervising on site.
- Heavy rain has damaged infrastructure across Jammu division, with the Jammu–Srinagar highway shut for days, schools closed, and fresh weather alerts warning of more flash floods and landslides.
- Separately, Pakistan’s Punjab is battling fast‑rising river floods linked to abnormal rains and upstream dam releases, with nearly 300,000 evacuated, over 1 million affected, and controlled embankment breaches to protect major cities.