Powerful torrents driven by intense rain smashed into a Himalayan mountain village in Indian-administered Kashmir and killed at least 46 people on Thursday, a top disaster management official told AFP.

It is the second major deadly flooding disaster in India this month.

"The news is grim," Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said in a statement, reporting a "cloudburst" of intense rain that had hit the Kishtwar district.

Crowds gathered at a Kishtwar hospital while people carried some of the injured on stretchers.

"Death toll has increased to 46," a top disaster management official Mohammad Irshad told AFP, adding "some people are missing but we can't say how many."

Irshad said 150 wounded people were also rescued from the disaster site, "50 of whom are severely injured". All were se

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