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Chisoti, Kishtwar: Rescue workers are racing against time to locate several dozen persons, mostly pilgrims, who are missing since the flash flood, triggered by a suspected cloudburst, ravaged Chisoti village in the Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir.

Chisoti, also spelled Chaisoti, is a small village at the mouth of a narrow valley that falls on the way to the temple of Mata Machail, to which one of the most sacred Hindu pilgrimages in Jammu and Kashmir is performed by hundreds of thousands of pilgrims every year.

The Wire visited the village located deep in the Himalayas on Saturday (August 16), some 300 kilometres from the capital Srinagar, to document the climate catastrophe that has left at least 60 persons dead and which hundreds escaped with minor and major injuries.

Rescue workers carry a dead body on a stretcher past a makeshift wooden bridge over the Bhot tributary of the Chenab river, which was struck by flash floods on August 14, leaving at least 60 persons dead while dozens are missing.

Roma Devi’s granddaughter Arundhati, 9, is among 60 persons who have been confirmed dead by the government. Arundhati’s body was recovered from the........

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