The expanded search operation continued in this cloudburst-hit village in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar district on the seventh day on Wednesday, officials said, as Principal Secretary, Home, Chandraker Bharti, chaired a meeting of various agencies after assessing the ground situation.

The senior official is the first of the 10 IAS and IPS officers who have been directed by the Lieutenant Governor to visit the disaster-hit area over eight days to supervise relief and rescue operations.

The death toll in the natural calamity that struck the last motorable village en route to the Machail Mata temple on August 14 during the yatra has reached 65, including three CISF personnel and one Special Police Officer (SPO) of J-K Police. Over 100 people were injured and 39 are still missing.