3 days on, 19 missing in Kishtwar cloudburst remain untraced: Relief organisations

Inaccessibility of the area is making it hard to carry relief and other material to the village, say volunteers

Nineteen locals remain untraced for the third consecutive day on Saturday under the mounds of rubble caused by the of the Chenab Valley’s Kishtwar area, according to the relief organisations. “We reached the cloudburst-hit Honzar on Thursday morning. Eight houses were completely buried in and ,” Syed Imran, a volunteer with the Ababeel, an NGO arranging relief material for the survivors, told The Hindu. According to the volunteers of several relief organisation, the rescue operations launched by the administration with the help of the Army and the State Disaster Relief Force (SDRF) were not able to recover any person alive or dead. The cloudburst hit the village on the intervening night of July 28-29 and left seven people dead and 17 injured.