India, Aug. 24 -- Union defence minister Rajnath Singh has reached cloudburst-hit Chishoti village of Kishtwar in Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday, police said.

"Singh is scheduled to meet the injured at Government Medical College (GMC) Jammu and shall also hold a meeting here before returning to Delhi," Lieutenant Governor (LG) Manoj Sinha said.

A massive cloudburst pummeled Chishoti village and flattened everything that came in its path on August 14. With the death of an injured woman at GMC in Jammu on Wednesday evening, the death toll in Chishoti has mounted to 65, officials said.

"We have 26 injured from the Kishtwar cloudburst, who are being treated for various injuries. One of them has been kept in the ICU," GMC Hospital medical supe...