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The vital Srinagar-Kargil road witnessed a blockage following a cloudburst incident in the Cherwan Kangan area of Ganderbal district in Jammu and Kashmir on the intervening night of Sunday. The Srinagar-Sonamarg-Gumuri (SSG) road near Padawbal has also been blocked after an overflow from a nearby canal led to an accumulation of mud on the road. No causality has been reported yet and road clearance operations are currently underway.

The cloudburst has caused extensive damage to the region, affecting paddy fields and trapping several vehicles in the debris.

“This cloudburst occurred during the intervening night of Sunday. Debris has accumulated here, but with God's grace, no lives have been lost,” Gulzar Ahmad, the Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) of Ganderbal, said, as quoted by news agency ANI.

“Our priority is to clear the road. In those houses where the debris has entered, we rescued the residents and shifted them to safer places. The district police, administration, and private establishments are working in tandem. We will be able to clear it today,” he added.

Authorities have advised commuters to avoid travelling on the affected road until the clearance operations are completed.

Cloudbursts In Himachal Pradesh

The death toll has increased to nine with the recovery of a body from Rajban village in Mandi. On the intervening night of July 31 and August 1, a series of cloudbursts followed by flash floods wreaked havoc in Kullu's Nirmand, Sainj and Malana; Mandi's Padhar and Shimla's Rampur subdivision of Himachal Pradesh. 410 rescuers from teams of the Army, NDRF, SDRF, ITBP, CISF, Himachal Pradesh Police and home guards are currently involved in the hunt for about 45 missing people in these districts with the help of drones, according to officials.

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"There was a review meeting, every agency participated. There will be work on war footing today. All the task forces have been assigned different works. JCBs have arrived. We are making bridges, ropeways at rivers. We are trying to recover as much bodies as possible. The rescue operation is ongoing," said Home Guard Commandant RP Nepta about the ongoing rescue operations, as quoted by news agency PTI.


Cloudbursts In Uttarakhand

Around 10,000 people stranded along different parts of the Kedarnath yatra route have been safely rescued while relief efforts were ongoing on war footing, a senior official of Uttarakhand disaster management authority said on Saturday. This comes after massive landslides, triggered by cloudbursts at several places on the Kedarnath route left at least 14 dead and thousands stranded.

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Uttarakhand Disaster Management and Rehabilitation Secretary Vinod Kumar Suman said that a total of 7,234 passengers were rescued by August 2. On August 3, an additional 1,865 passengers were rescued and taken to safe locations, bringing the total to 9,099 passengers rescued by August 3.