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Monsoon Deluge Engulfs Northern India as Rescues Surge and Fake Train Video Is Debunked

Rescue teams press evacuations, with officials countering AI‑generated disaster clips.

Overview

  • More than 10 states, including Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Odisha and Assam, remain flooded with key roads shut in hill districts.
  • In Jammu, the IMD recorded 380 mm of rain in 24 hours, breaking a 115‑year mark, and a landslide near Vaishno Devi left 34 people dead.
  • NDRF and Army units are conducting large air and boat rescues; in Pathankot, troops airlifted 22 CRPF personnel and three civilians from a building that later collapsed.
  • The Press Information Bureau said a widely shared ‘submerged train’ video is AI‑generated and noted no such rail incident has been reported.
  • Floodwaters have also swamped the Attari–Wagah corridor, and AP reported more than 210,000 people displaced in Pakistan’s Punjab as authorities deployed the army there.