Ladakh Flash Floods

A bridge and standing crops were damaged on Sunday in flash floods in several villages in Ladakh, where authorities sounded an alert after an outburst of an artificial lake resulted in blockage of the Zanskar river, officials said.

Flash floods in Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh killed at least 17 people, damaged several houses and a mini hydro-power plant while many north Indian states received widespread rainfall on Wednesday.

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today issued directions to the Ladakh Affairs Department as well as district administration Leh to immediately carry out assessment of damages caused due to flash floods.

Bulat Kumar is still haunted by the trauma of the night when Leh was hit by a flash flood caused by a cloudburst. A labourer from Bihar, he was asleep in his tent with nine relatives when the floods hit Leh.All of them were washed away; he's the only one who survived and doesn't know if his family in a Bihar village even knows about the tragedy."We...

Frantic rescue efforts are underway in Leh and parts of Ladakh after Friday's devastating cloudburst that flattened villages and snapped power and communication links. According to the latest estimates over 150 people are now dead. (Watch: This labourer lost nine relatives) Although many families reported missing after water swept through their vil...

Around 400 people are still missing in Leh, the high altitude capital of Ladakh. Among those missing are 31 jawans of the Indo-Tibetan border police whose camp was washed away in flash floods following Friday's cloud burst in the area. The picturesque landscape of Ladakh has been completely destroyed. Fortunately, the Air Force has managed to compl...

A cloudburst is a sudden downpour within a radius of few kilometres. It usually lasts no longer than few minutes but is capable of flooding the area.Rainfall from a cloudburst is usually over 100 mm per hour.Cloudbursts descend from very high clouds, sometimes with tops above 15 kilometers. Rapid precipitation is possible due to large droplets grow...

The flash floods, caused by a cloudburst have transformed the picturesque landscape of Leh into a virtual disaster zone with buildings, houses and schools completely destroyed.The scene in Choglamsar village on the outskirts of Leh town - flattened houses and buried vehicles - looks like it's straight out of a disaster movie. But on this road leadi...

Finally, a father has found his son. Cyrus Surti's son Rohan, who was missing since Friday in Leh called home today and told his parents he was safe. Rohan  said it would take him about a week to get back, as it was impossible to leave Leh right now. Rohan is in India on a holiday from Australia. He was in  Ladakh with his friends. His fa...

The Leh Airport does not give any indication of the devastation that the sudden cloudburst wrought on the Ladakh capital late on Thursday night. The Army and the Air Force have managed to completely wipe out the slush that the runway was under through the day on Friday.So, flights landed - commecial as well as military - on Saturday morning bringin...

At least 115 people have been killed and hundreds are still missing, among them are 31 jawans, after flash floods hit Leh in Ladakh. Reports said a number of people were killed and many injured in a massive cloudburst on Thursday night. (See pictures) "We were sitting inside when we got to know about the floods. We came outside and saw the entire ...

A bridge and standing crops were damaged on Sunday in flash floods in several villages in Ladakh, where authorities sounded an alert after an outburst of an artificial lake resulted in blockage of the Zanskar river, officials said.

Flash floods in Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh killed at least 17 people, damaged several houses and a mini hydro-power plant while many north Indian states received widespread rainfall on Wednesday.

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today issued directions to the Ladakh Affairs Department as well as district administration Leh to immediately carry out assessment of damages caused due to flash floods.

Bulat Kumar is still haunted by the trauma of the night when Leh was hit by a flash flood caused by a cloudburst. A labourer from Bihar, he was asleep in his tent with nine relatives when the floods hit Leh.All of them were washed away; he's the only one who survived and doesn't know if his family in a Bihar village even knows about the tragedy."We...

Frantic rescue efforts are underway in Leh and parts of Ladakh after Friday's devastating cloudburst that flattened villages and snapped power and communication links. According to the latest estimates over 150 people are now dead. (Watch: This labourer lost nine relatives) Although many families reported missing after water swept through their vil...

Around 400 people are still missing in Leh, the high altitude capital of Ladakh. Among those missing are 31 jawans of the Indo-Tibetan border police whose camp was washed away in flash floods following Friday's cloud burst in the area. The picturesque landscape of Ladakh has been completely destroyed. Fortunately, the Air Force has managed to compl...

A cloudburst is a sudden downpour within a radius of few kilometres. It usually lasts no longer than few minutes but is capable of flooding the area.Rainfall from a cloudburst is usually over 100 mm per hour.Cloudbursts descend from very high clouds, sometimes with tops above 15 kilometers. Rapid precipitation is possible due to large droplets grow...

The flash floods, caused by a cloudburst have transformed the picturesque landscape of Leh into a virtual disaster zone with buildings, houses and schools completely destroyed.The scene in Choglamsar village on the outskirts of Leh town - flattened houses and buried vehicles - looks like it's straight out of a disaster movie. But on this road leadi...

Finally, a father has found his son. Cyrus Surti's son Rohan, who was missing since Friday in Leh called home today and told his parents he was safe. Rohan  said it would take him about a week to get back, as it was impossible to leave Leh right now. Rohan is in India on a holiday from Australia. He was in  Ladakh with his friends. His fa...

The Leh Airport does not give any indication of the devastation that the sudden cloudburst wrought on the Ladakh capital late on Thursday night. The Army and the Air Force have managed to completely wipe out the slush that the runway was under through the day on Friday.So, flights landed - commecial as well as military - on Saturday morning bringin...

At least 115 people have been killed and hundreds are still missing, among them are 31 jawans, after flash floods hit Leh in Ladakh. Reports said a number of people were killed and many injured in a massive cloudburst on Thursday night. (See pictures) "We were sitting inside when we got to know about the floods. We came outside and saw the entire ...