Rain damages vital bridge on Jammu-Pathankot highway, life paralysed

A vital bridge on the strategic Jammu-Pathankot national highway was badly damaged, and several students of the Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (IIIM) were rescued by SDRF personnel as torrential rains this morning threw life out of gear in the Jammu region.

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This was the second-highest rainfall this month in a century.

Electricity and drinking water supply were also disrupted for long hours in the city and rural areas. The authorities have shut all schools in the Jammu division on Monday in view of the bad weather advisory. According to the Meteorological Centre, Jammu recorded 191 mm of rainfall in the past 24 hours till 8.30 am. The highest rainfall for August remains 228.6 mm, recorded on 5 August 1926, while the previous second-highest was 189.6 mm on 11 August 2022.

Authorities have issued advisories asking people to stay away from water bodies and landslide-prone areas amid a weather forecast predicting moderate to intense rainfall with the possibility of cloudbursts, flash floods, and landslides in high altitude areas till August 27.