Nine persons were on Sunday killed and five others injured as several houses caved in following a series of cloudbursts in different areas of Uttarakhand’s Rudraprayag district, taking the death toll since Friday to 47. Cloudbursts struck four villages including Kirorimalla, Timli Badma, Dugur Shemla and Simbal on Sunday morning, in which nine persons died and five others were injured. With these deaths, the toll in Rudraprayag district in the last two days went up to 47, whereas, five persons were injured and 23 others still missing.