NEW DELHI: At least four people were killed, including two brothers, due to heavy rains and flash floods triggered by a cloudburst in the Rajgad area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban, according to the district administration. A rescue operation has been launched to find a missing person.

“Three people have died due to heavy rains and flash floods in the Rajgad area of Ramban. Two people are reported missing, and a rescue operation is going on,” news agency ANI quoted district administration.According to news agency PTI, officials said that the cloudburst triggered flash floods in mountainous Rajgarh, located about 25 kilometres from the district headquarters. The bodies of three people, including two women, have been found, who were washed away by the floods.The region has been grappling with heavy rainfall and flash floods. Isolated heavy rainfall is predicted in Jammu and Kashmir from August 30 to September 2, according to IMD. Meanwhile, light to moderate rainfall is likely in parts of Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Gilgit-Baltistan, Muzaffarabad, and Uttarakhand in the next four days.The defence ministry earlier on Friday said that IAF has intensified its flood relief and rescue operations in Northern India with a primary focus on the severely affected Jammu and Punjab regions. More than 55 sorties were conducted by Mi-17 and Chinook helicopters to extract stranded civilians, including personnel from Army and Border Security Force, from inundated areas in Dera Baba Nanak, Pathankot, and Akhnoor sectors.To facilitate the rapid movement of specialised NDRF teams, transport aircraft (C-130) have been deployed into the affected zones. Further, the defence ministry said that the “operations have enabled the rescue of 215 individuals and delivered 7,300 kgs of essential relief material in the affected areas in the past three days.”