Скачать или смотреть Bodies recovered after part of Jammu mountainside collapses, hits pilgrimage route amid heavy rains

(27 Aug 2025)
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Jammu, Indian-controlled Kashmir - 27 August 2025
1. Wide pan of body wrapped in white shroud being transported from ambulance
2. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Pawan Devi, Pilgrim:
“We had no time to react. Not even a single second to save anyone. They couldn’t save themselves too.”
3. Mid of bodies of flood victims being carried from truck to stretcher
4. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Pawan Devi, Pilgrim:
“Four of my family members have died. My daughter, my sister and my sister’s relatives have died.”
5. Wide of body being carried from truck to stretcher
STORYLINE:
Four members of one family have been killed in a landslide in Indian-controlled Kashmir’s Jammu region, after intense rains triggered flash floods.

A section of a mountainside in Jammu collapsed and hit a popular Hindu pilgrimage route in the Katra area late Tuesday.

Devotees were trekking on foot to reach the hilltop temple, which is one of the most visited shrines in northern India, officials said. 

“We had no time to react. Not even a single second to save anyone. They couldn’t save themselves too,” said pilgrim Pawan Devi, whose daughter and sister were among the victims.

The bodies of most of the pilgrimage victims were recovered from under the debris of stones, boulders and rocks, according to officials.

Rescue teams scoured the Himalayan area Wednesday for missing people and the pilgrimage to the shrine has been suspended.

At least 34 people have been killed in the region due to the heavy rainfall, officials said Wednesday.

AP video by Channi Anand

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