Aman Zutshi
A man survived and one remained missing after a flash flood appeared at Panchari in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur district yesterday night.
According to the sources, the mishap happened at 8:30pm when two bike borne men who were going from Panchari to Galeote got trapped in a flash flood, when they reached on a diversion bridge in Galeote.
While one of the man washed away due to the flash flood with his bike, while the other survived it and was rescued by the police and local people, when a large scale search & rescue operation was launched, after the villagers heard his screams for help .
One man has been identified as Anil Kumar son of Jagdish Raj resident of Omala Morh, Udhampur and the other missing person has been identified as Suraj Goswami resident of Police Training College (PTC), Udhampur.
A search and rescue operation is still going on in the supervision of SHO Udhampur police station Amit Sharma in Galeote to trace the missing man.
The bike borne duo were going to Galeote to pay condolences to the missing man’s deceased sister.
A flash flood is a rapid flooding of low-lying areas: washes, rivers, dry lakes and depressions. It may be caused by heavy rain associated with a severe thunderstorm, hurricane, or tropical storm, or by meltwater from ice or snow flowing over ice sheets or snowfields. Flash floods may also occur after the collapse of a natural ice or debris dam, or a human structure such as a man-made dam, as occurred before the Johnstown Flood of 1889. Flash floods are distinguished from regular floods by having a timescale of fewer than six hours between rainfall and the onset of flooding.
Flash floods are a significant hazard, causing more fatalities in the US in an average year than lightning, tornadoes, or hurricanes. Flash floods can also deposit large quantities of sediments on floodplains and can be destructive of vegetation cover not adapted to frequent flood conditions.
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