Leh flash floods: 59 dead, 25 Army jawans missing

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With at least 59 people confirmed dead in flash floods near Leh on Thursday night, news has also come in that 25 Army jawans in the area are missing after their posts and houses were washed away, Army sources said.

A series of cloudbursts in this Himalayan pocket prompted the floods that have caused heavy damage to life, infrastructure and property in the area. The cloudbursts hit Choglumsar area, 13 kilometres from Leh and 424 kilometres from Srinagar. Fifty bodies have been recovered from this small town, officials said.

The injured have been shifted to the local Army base hospital.

While 59 people have died, many are still missing. Sources in the Defence Ministry said the numbers are likely to go up over 100.

Major roads to Leh have been cut off and the Kargil-Leh highway has been partially damaged. The runway of the civil airport has been cut off from the rest of the country as a thick carpet of slush has settled over it.



Leh flash floods: 59 dead, 25 Army jawans missing

 

[Undivided Kashmir]

RIP to all the departed souls specially to the brave Jawans.

 

[COLDHEARTED AVIATOR]

RIP to the people who have died and condolences to the ones who lost their dear ones and their property.

I am surprised this year to see places like Leh and Rajasthan having floods..the coolest and warmest deserts in the country.

 

[booo]

I've recently been to leh city. I feel so bad. RIP all the departed.

 

[Tshering22]

The weather is totally crazy these days. Draught in Kerala, flash floods in Rajasthan and Ladakh... What's happening!

 

[Imran Khan]

RIP to civils and jawans. god bless s.asia these days

 

[ek_indian]

May all departed souls RIP.

 

[below_freezing]

what the hell is going on with asia this year? why are there flooding everywhere

 

[gurjot]

near 150 r killed

 

[mjnaushad]

Pak, China, India........Koi bacha hai south Asia mein flood sey......Bad moonsoon this time.....May god help us all.

 

[d14gtc]

its totaly unpridictable to ve such a disaster in this part f the country/Region.A real shocker hearing all this.Just wishing no more pains to ne1.My prays for those who suffered d loss,may god give them strength to bear all d pain.

 

[Break the Silence]

IAF Aircraft On Relief Missions To Leh, Ladakh

Over 150 has been dead, 600 missing.

 

[Mirza Jatt]

RIP to the the dead !

asia is having really bad time...China ,Pakistan and now India.

 

[d14gtc]

Its now nature's turn to show all f us wat it has in its armoury for us...... its all is now started paying back what we had done with MOTHER NATURE/EARTH
......... jst wish after somtime we won't see/face a "SUMMER IN DECEMBER N A CHILLIN WINTERS IN MID F JUNE" accompanied by such calamities all over. (This quote is only added jst to submit ma views fr this all y happning)....... Perhaps there shud b somthing constructive should be done for this too to avoid such pains in future.

 

[Tshering22]

Its now nature's turn to show all f us wat it has in its armoury for us...... its all is now started paying back what we had done with MOTHER NATURE/EARTH
......... jst wish after somtime we won't see/face a "SUMMER IN DECEMBER N A CHILLIN WINTERS IN MID F JUNE" accompanied by such calamities all over. (This quote is only added jst to submit ma views fr this all y happning)....... Perhaps there shud b somthing constructive should be done for this too to avoid such pains in future.

I am afraid you're sort of right, bub. We all whether it is perennial tornados in US, gradual sinking of Netherlands and adjoining countries, earthquakes of Japan, flash floods and earthquakes of China and India, floods of Pakistan; we all have troubled nature with our nuclear explosions, manhandling environmental standards and meddled against nature's harmony for material gains.

Now it is all paying us back by showing us what weapons it has--- and the best part of this is, man has no weapon that can stop nature.