At least 30 people killed in landslide as heavy rains batter northern India

According to officials and the local media, at least 30 people have died and many more have been injured in Kashmir, which was impacted by heavy rains.

According to police and local media, search and rescue operations were underway on Wednesday in the wake of the landslide on a well-known Hindu pilgrimage route in the Katra area the day before.

The Himalayan region’s recent disaster, which has resulted in hundreds of deaths and missing in India and Pakistan, was the result of heavy monsoon rains.

At least 30 people have been confirmed dead in Tuesday’s landslide, according to senior police superintendent Paramvir Singh, who spoke to the Anadolu news agency.

He claimed that “local volunteers, disaster relief teams, and security forces have been called upon to help clear debris and find survivors.”

According to the DPA news agency, the pilgrimage to the Vaishno Devi Temple has been discontinued since the disaster.

Communications are “almost nonexistent.”

Heavy rains have also ruined the region’s infrastructure, sweeping away bridges and roads and flooding homes.

According to news reports from news agencies, heavy rains have caused India to erect large dams on Pakistan’s swollen rivers, a warning of potential downstream flooding. Tens of thousands of people were evacuated in Pakistan on Tuesday following New Delhi’s warning about potential cross-border flooding.

Omar Abdullah, chief minister for Indian-administered Kashmir, according to the Reuters news agency, the Indian authorities were working to restore telecommunications services, which were “almost nonexistent” in the midst of the deluge.

The government has been working continuously overnight to restore mobile services, water supply, and electricity, according to Jitendra Singh, India’s science and technology minister, in a post on X.

During the June-September monsoon season, floods and landslides are common, but experts claim that climate change is making them more frequent and severe.

More than 1,200 people have died in India as a result of monsoon-related incidents since June, according to officials, and at least 800 have died in Pakistan since late June.