India, Aug. 17 -- Search and rescue operations are on after seven people were killed and five injured in flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy rain in Ghati village and its surroundings 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 under debris after a landslide hit a place called Juthana Jod near Ghati in the early hours of Sunday. It was around the same time that suspected cloudbursts struck Ghati, a remote village in Rajbagh area of the district, and two other locations nearby, snapping access to the village due to flash floods.

While five persons lost their live...