‘I just want to find them’: deadly cloudbursts devastate Kashmir’s mountain communities
Rescue teams search for missing people in Murrah village after the cloudburst-triggered landslide. His daughter had asked him to move the family’s car to a safer place as the rain got heavier.“I had only just parked it,” Latief recalled. “When I turned around, I saw the water coming.” Minutes later, a cloudburst sent mud, boulders and water crashing down the hillside.Latief, 48, had spent years building the house, where five generations of his Gujjar family lived together.
- ▪Rescue teams search for missing people in Murrah village after the cloudburst-triggered landslide.
- ▪His daughter had asked him to move the family’s car to a safer place as the rain got heavier.“I had only just parked it,” Latief recalled.
- ▪“When I turned around, I saw the water coming.” Minutes later, a cloudburst sent mud, boulders and water crashing down the hillside.Latief, 48, had spent years building the house, where five generations of his Gujjar family lived together.
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Rescue teams search for missing people in Murrah village after the cloudburst-triggered landslide. Photograph: Ishtayaq RasoolIncreasingly erratic weather patterns due to climate change mean people are losing homes, crops and livestockBy Ishtayaq Rasool in Indian-administered KashmirWed 5 Aug 2026 00.00 EDTSharePrefer the Guardian on GoogleAs rain lashed the Pir Panjal mountains before dawn on 19 July, Haji Mohammad Latief stepped outside his home in Murrah, a remote mountain village in Indian-administered Kashmir. His daughter had asked him to move the family’s car to a safer place as the rain got heavier.“I had only just parked it,” Latief recalled.
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