17 feared dead in Kashmir floods

5 Dariya News

Srinagar 30-Mar-2015

Seventeen people are feared dead due to house collapses and flash floods in Jammu and Kashmir, authorities said on Monday.A police officer told IANS here that a landslide triggered by incessant rain in Laden village of Budgam district buried two houses, trapping 16 people from two families.Lal Hajam, head of a family buried in the house collapse, was away when the accident occurred, the officer said."We have not recovered any body from the debris," he added.Reports in winter capital Jammu said a vehicle carrying bovines on way to Udhampur from Doda was caught in flash floods and a young man, Angrez Singh, was washed away.Meanwhile, water has inundated the Jammu-Srinagar highway at Pampore town, 12 km from Srinagar.Reports said water had breached the Jhelum river embankment at one place in Pampore town, inundating the highway.