SRINAGAR: In some parts of Srinagar, for the fourth day in row, families continue to be stranded on the roofs of their houses, the water surrounding them nearly 10 feet high. Anger is seething, and four Air Force helicopters, carrying supplies, could not land this morning at the helipad at the Governor’s residence, after threats of stoning.
There has been no rain since yesterday, allowing new momentum to a massive rescue operation that has seen nearly 80,000 people brought to safety by tireless members of the armed forces and the National Disaster Response Force (NRDF). But the worst floods in over a century in the state mean that six lakh residents are still waiting for
help in Srinagar and southern Kashmir; the river Jhelum, which flows through Srinagar, washed over the city on the weekend.
In other parts of the state, five days of pounding rain ended on Monday evening. By then, hundreds of villages were submerged with landslides rendering them inaccessible by road.
In the Rambagh area of Srinagar on Monday evening, two rescue workers from the NRDF on a boat were reportedly attacked with sticks; their boat was punctured. One of the workers was injured.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah last evening said, “I understand the anger but it is not true that nothing is happening… this situation is unprecedented.”
The chief minister said that a lot of people seem to have underestimated the fury of the floods. “We asked people to move out of their homes and sent vehicles, but many did not do so believing that the water would subside,” Mr Abdullah said.
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