‘I just want to find them’: deadly cloudbursts devastate Kashmir’s mountain communities

In Indian-administered Kashmir, a cloudburst before dawn on the nineteenth of July sent mud, boulders, and water crashing down the Pir Panjal mountainside onto the village of Murrah. The Guardian reports resident Haji Mohammad Latief had just moved his family's car to safety when he turned to see the water arriving. The outlet frames it as part of increasingly erratic weather patterns tied to climate change, which are costing mountain communities their homes, crops, and livestock.

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