JAMMU, Aug. 25 -- Overnight heavy rains that lashed Jammu region, inundated low lying areas, damaged several houses, roads, electricity poles and a vital bridge over Sahar Khad in Kathua on Jammu-Pathankot national highway on Sunday morning, said officials. In the past 24 hours till 8.30 AM on Sunday, Jammu district received 190.4 mm rainfall, second highest August rainfall in a century, followed by 115.4 in Katra and 90 mm rainfall in Kathua district. On August 5, 1926, Jammu district had received 228.6 mm of rain. A pillar beneath a bridge over Sahar Khad near Kalibari on Jammu-Kathua national highway NH 44 in Kathua district tilted from its foundation this morning due to heavy rains in the rivulet. "After some time the bridge also slanted. Traffic movement was diverted to adjoining bridge and then diverted to safer route," said a police officer. A major portion of a plot near a temple on the banks of River Tawi in Jammu city also caved in....