Five people died and at least two went missing after several houses were flattened by torrential rain following a cloudburst in a village along the India-Nepal border in Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand

Two severely injured people were also airlifted to a hospital on Monday. According to officials in the district disaster control room, a cloudburst on Sunday caused several houses to collapse in the village, trapping the inhabitants. Teams of the State Disaster Response Force, SSB, police, and the revenue officers carried out search and rescue operations on Monday.  (TOI)