Several people are feared dead in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir after heavy rains and cloudburst were reported in the region last night.

Rescue work is going and the authorities are searching for the bodies. 

Doda, which falls in the Jammu region, has witnessed heavy rainfall this monsoon.

Last week, three members of a family in the district were killed after their house collapsed following heavy rains. Authorities said the roof of their mud house collapsed due to heavy rains in Tanta village. Earlier this week, landslides due to heavy rains in Jammu and Kashmir's Ramban district had forced the authorities to temporarily suspend traffic on the arterial Jammu-Srinagar national highway that connects Jammu and the Kashmir valley.

Heavy rainfall has led to flash floods and landslides in many parts of the country including Assam, Manipur and Odisha.

In April, the Jhelum river in the state started flowing above the danger mark forcing the administration to issue a flood alert in the Valley.

Kashmir had witnessed unprecedented floods in 2014 when most of the residential areas, including in Srinagar, were inundated by waters up to the level of several feet.

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