Tragic visuals of destruction amid monsoon | North India | Matrabhumi

Seven people died, and more than a dozen were injured and several are still missing in a cloudburst incident in the wee hours of Wednesday in a remote village in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar area.

On Tuesday, Himachal Pradesh's Lahaul Spiti district witnessed a similar cloudburst incident followed by flash floods at around 8 pm, leaving one dead and several missing.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) had warned of extremely heavy rainfall in northwest India and the western Himalayan states for Tuesday, Monday and Thursday, but this forecast did not and cannot predict cloudburst incidents.