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Women wail at the loss of life and property in their village in Kashmir, India. Unseasonal rains and floods have yet again hit their village for the second time in less than a year. A landslide in the Himalayan region of Kashmir killed six people and left 10 missing, police said on Monday, as unseasonal rains swept India, damaging crops and raising fears of flash floods in the mountainous north. Hundreds of people fled their homes as Kashmir's main rivers began to swell and weather forecasters predicted further downpours in the region that was struck by devastating floods seven months ago. A hillside collapsed onto a house in Ledhan village, about 40 km from the capital Srinagar, where three families were sleeping on Monday morning, according to Mushtaq Ahmad, a neighbour. Army and police