Jammu: A minimum of 10 folks have been killed and 13 injured throughout Reasi and Doda districts as torrential rain hammered J&Okay’s Jammu area Tuesday, unleashing landslides and flash floods.A landslide struck close to Indraprastha Bhojnalaya at Ardhkuwari en path to Vaishno Devi cave shrine in Reasi round 3pm, leaving six useless. “Rescue operations are underway,” the shrine board posted on X. Government halted pilgrim motion till climate clears.3 youths from Rajasthan’s Dholpur district — Yash Garg, Pranshu Mittal and Shiv Bansal — have been lacking after being swept away whilst coming back from the shrine. Buddies Aditya Parmar and Deepak Mittal survived by way of clinging to a tree as a torrent of dust and stones roared previous. The crowd had opted for an alternate path to the temple’s base the town Katra, officers stated.In Doda district, 4 folks died as swollen rivers broken 17 homes, together with government constructions, and swept away 3 footbridges. “Up to now, 4 deaths were reported around the district — two in Bhalessa, one in Thathri subdivision and one in Bhaderwah,” DC Harvinder Singh stated.Rivers Chenab, Tawi, Ujh, Ravi, Sahar Khad and Basantar are in spate, flooding low-lying spaces. Site visitors on Jammu–Srinagar and Kishtwar–Doda highways was once suspended, whilst rankings of hilly roads lay blocked or washed out.Government close faculties, schools and government workplaces, excluding crucial products and services, for Wednesday and warned of extra downpours. The meteorological division logged 155mm rainfall in Kathua and 99mm in Bhaderwah over the last 24 hours and forecast extra heavy showers, triggering fears of extra flash floods.Cell and broadband products and services went darkish throughout Jammu, and railways cancelled 18 trains as landslides tore into tracks. Government prompt citizens in inclined zones to stay on alert as rescue groups braced for worsening prerequisites.CM Omar Abdullah posted on X that he spoke to Union house minister Amit Shah and briefed him concerning the scenario “in J&Okay, particularly Jammu province, the place heavy and steady rains have brought about a large number of harm and disruption to standard lifestyles”.Shah referred to as the landslide at the Vaishno Devi pilgrimage path “extraordinarily tragic”, writing on X in Hindi that he spoke to CM Abdullah and LG Manoj Sinha. “Native management is actively engaged in aid and rescue efforts to assist injured, and NDRF crew may be achieving there,” he stated.The Military has dispatched 3 aid columns — one to Ardhkuwari, every other to a landslide-hit highway between Katra and Thakra Kot, and a 3rd to a space south of Jaurian.CM Abdullah additionally briefed Shah concerning the disruption in connectivity, whilst expressing remorseful about that he and his colleagues have been not able to go back and forth to Jammu because of the airport’s closure, in step with PTI. “I am hoping so that you could get there at the first flight day after today,” he stated.(inputs from Rajendra Prasad Sharma in Alwar)