India, Aug. 17 -- Search and rescue operations are on after at least seven people - five of them children aged between 2 and 15 - were killed and several injured in flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy rain and a possible cloudburst in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district, officials said on Sunday.

This comes just days after a similar incident caused by a cloudburst in Kishtwar district claimed at least 60 lives.

A family was feared buried after a landslide hit a place called Juthana Jodh in the early hours of Sunday. It was around the same time that suspected cloudbursts struck Jodh Ghati, a remote village in Rajbagh area of the district, and two other locations nearby, snapping access to the village due to flash floods.

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