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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| Landslides bury 15 in flood-hit Indian Kashmir |
| 2015-03-31 |
| [ARABNEWS] Landslides buried at least 15 people in Indian Kashmire on Monday as hundreds fled their homes after heavy rain triggered flooding around the mountainous region. Police and witnesses said landslides had buried at least four houses in Chadoora, the worst hit area of the Himalayan region where hundreds were killed in devastating floods last September. "The ground above the houses just collapsed early this morning and buried them," villager Mohammad Sultan told AFP by telephone from Chadoora, around 15 km west of the main city of Srinagar. Hundreds of Kashmiris in both India and Pakistain moved to higher ground Monday as rain-swollen rivers swamped parts of the disputed Himalayan region placed under an emergency flood alert just six months after some 600 people died in flooding that left the region in shambles. Officials ordered residents along the banks of the Jhelum River to move to relief camps as the water crossed the danger threshold in Srinagar, the main city in Indian-controlled Kashmire. More than a dozen people were trapped inside two houses that partially sank into the ground after a landslide hit Budgam district, police said. Rescuers were digging through huge piles of mud in an effort to reach them. |
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