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At least four people were killed and many others were injured due to flooding caused by a cloudburst in a remote village in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district, officials said on Sunday, NDTV reported.

The cloudburst struck a village in Janglote during the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday.

Union Minister Jitendra Singh, who is a member of Parliament from Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur, said a railway track, the National Highway-44 and a police station were also damaged in the cloudburst, according to NDTV.

A man and his wife were electrocuted at Pipara in Kanchanrup Municipality-5 of Saptari on Sunday. 

The deceased have been identified as Badri Sardar (50) and his wife Bimala Devi (45), said Madhav Prasad Kafle, Deputy Superintendent of Police of the Area Police Office, Kanchanpur.

Mahendra Sardar of Pipara, Kanchanrup-5, had installed a live electric wire to protect the paddy crop from elephants. The Sardar couple died after falling on the same exposed wire. 

They were going to their farmland about 150 meters east of their house, when the incident took place early this morning, according to the police.

The Narayangadh-Muglin road section, which was blocked since this morning due to a dry landslide, has been opened for traffic. 

The road section at Tuinkhola in Ichchakamana Rural Municipality-5 of Chitwan was obstructed due to a landslide.

According to Rabindra Khanal, Information Officer of the District Police Office, Chitwan, traffic has resumed on the road sector after the landslide debris, including rocks that had fallen on the road were cleared. 

A total of 2,853 incidents of disasters have occurred across the country from mid-April 19 to mid-August this year. In the incidents, 126 people have lost their lives while 585 were injured.

According to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority, altogether 5,041 families have been affected while 23 people have gone missing due to disaster including 216 incidents of floods, 317 of landslides, 221 of heavy rains and 245 of lightning. Another 77 incidents of snakebites have also occurred across the country.

Similarly, 1,114 incidents of fires, 158 of wildfires, 277 of storms, 172 of wild animal attacks, 46 of landslides, five of earthquakes, two of boat capsizing, one incident of hailstorm and other disasters have occurred.

According to the NDRRMA, seven incidents of fire, one flood, eight landslides, four incessant rains, and three wild animal attacks occurred on August 16 alone, which led to the death of one person.

 The estimated damage caused by the disaster is around Rs 3.84 million.