Overview

• An August 14 internal report to the Ministry of Home Affairs finds that a landslide-induced chain reaction among several small lakes triggered the August 5 flash flood in Dharali rather than a formal cloudburst
• Over 30 engineers from the SDRF, NDRF and state irrigation teams carved a relief channel through Lake Harshil upstream of Dharali to safely lower water levels
• Cloudbursts in Chashoti on August 14 and Kathua on August 17 have claimed at least 68 lives, including five children, and left dozens more missing
• Indian Army columns, NDRF, SDRF teams, the Border Roads Organisation and local police have deployed helicopters, ground search parties and emergency operation centres across Uttarakhand and Jammu and Kashmir
• Surging Beas and Ravi rivers prompted flood warnings in six Punjab districts and led Jammu division authorities to close all schools due to inclement weather and ongoing rescue operations