Jammu, Aug. 18 -- The Lieutenant Governor led administration on Monday deployed 8 senior IAS and IPS officers to supervise relief and rescue operations in the cloudburst-hit Chisoti village of Kishtwar district that left 62 people dead.
On August 14, flash floods triggered by the cloudburst 14 in Chisoti - the last motorable village en route to the Machail Mata temple - also left at least 116 people injured.
Eighty-two people - 81 pilgrims and one CISF personnel - are reported missing.
"In order to supervise relief and rescue operations in response to the recent tragic cloudburst, the officers, as per the roster, are hereby deputed to Chishoti in district Kishtwar," read an order issued by Commissioner-Secretary to the Government M Raju....