Everything gone in few seconds: Kishtwar recalls

TWO days after a devastating cloudburst struck Chisoti village in J&K's Kishtwar district, survivors recall horror as families of the missing are clinging to fading hope.

- Fayaz Wani @Srinagar

"Within a few seconds everything was destroyed. We did not get the chance to move two steps back. My son and my brother's family are missing," said Sham Lal Sharma undergoing treatment in a Jammu hospital.

Sharma said he and his family members were sitting in a langar when the flash flood triggered by the cloudburst hit Chisoti along the route of the Machail Mata Yatra. "I urge administration to help in tracing my family members," he said.