Overview

• Multi-agency teams from the NDRF, SDRF, Army, police, CISF and GREF are focusing on three worst-hit sites and a 22 km stream corridor to Gulabgarh, with downstream checks at the Dool dam and along the Chenab.
• Officials say one person previously listed missing has returned home, leaving 32 unaccounted for, while massive boulders and deep debris have yielded no new recoveries in recent days.
• Recovered bodies and severed limbs are being matched through DNA profiling at GMC Kishtwar to confirm identities for families.
• Army engineers have restored access with a Bailey bridge and deployed all-terrain vehicles, as senior civil and police officers oversee ongoing relief and search operations.
• The Machail Mata Yatra remains suspended except for a 15-devotee Chhari procession, and the IMD forecasts more rain and flash-flood risks from August 23 to 26.