{"id":73450,"date":"2025-08-14T22:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T13:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/14\/kashmir-india-heavy-rain-people-dead-missing"},"modified":"2025-08-15T08:25:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T23:25:17","slug":"flash-flood-in-indian-kashmir-leaves-dozens-dead-and-at-least-200-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73450","title":{"rendered":"Flash flood in Indian Kashmir leaves at least 56 dead and scores missing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People on popular pilgrimage route were washed away by flood waters triggered by cloudburst, officials say<\/p>\n<p>At least 56 people have died and 80 are missing after a sudden rainstorm in Indian Kashmir, the second such disaster in the Himalayas in a little over a week.<\/p>\n<p>The incident in the town of Chashoti, Kishtwar district, occurred at a stopover point on a pilgrimage route. Days earlier, a flood and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/05\/flash-flood-mudslide-hits-indian-town-dharali-deaths\">mudslide engulfed a village<\/a> in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/14\/kashmir-india-heavy-rain-people-dead-missing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People on popular pilgrimage route were washed away by flood waters triggered by cloudburst, officials sayAt least 56 people have died and 80 are missing after a sudden rainstorm in Indian Kashmir, the second such disaster in the Himalayas in a little &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":616,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[65,455,313,62,1612,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-extreme-weather","category-flooding","category-india","category-landslides","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/616"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73450"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73458,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73450\/revisions\/73458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}