Jammu, Aug. 22 -- Eight days after a devastating cloudburst triggered flash floods in Chisoti village of Kishtwar district, the recovery of nearly as many severed limbs as intact bodies has left villagers and medical personnel at Atholi Sub-District Hospital deeply shaken.
On Thursday, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah confirmed that 65 bodies have been recovered so far, of which 62 have been identified. The remaining three are yet to be identified due to severe mutilation. Authorities have decided to conduct DNA profiling of both unidentified bodies and severed limbs to ascertain their identities.
The Atholi hospital, located about 30 km from the disaster site, has been at the forefront of receiving the remains retrieved from the flood-hit ar...