Heart wrenching before and after pictures of the Kashmir floods
About 150,000 people were still stranded in their homes a week after Jammu and Kashmir's worst flood in over a century. These terrifying before and after pictures will show the massive destruction the floods have caused. (Photo: Quartz)- This is a picture of Triangular Park, Jawahar Nagar. Roads were submerged in water leaving only rooftops and a smattering of treetops visible from above.
- People providing medical supplies are finding it impossible to venture out in the depths because of high flood waters.
- Nearby is Gupkar Road, home to Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah.
- Over one lakh people are still marooned, unleashed a trail of death and destruction. Among the country’s most picturesque golf courses, waters flooded parts of the Royal Springs.
- One 35-year-old man died in the hospital on Sunday after suffering a heart attack while stranded in his home. In another case, a man who had a treatable injury from a car crash before the floods could not return to the hospital for care, developed
- On the outskirts of Srinagar, the floods have almost washed away everything at the Nowgam Railway Station.
- Houses near the Dal lake neighbourhood were completely engulfed by flood waters.
- Both the Indian and Pakistan sides of the disputed Himalayan territory have been hit by extensive flooding since the Jhelum river, swollen by unusually heavy rain, surged last week.
- Sections of national highways 1A and 1D are flooded leaving queues of vehicles trapped.
- Not far from the hospital, dozens of dead cows lay on either side of the road on Sunday morning after a dairy flooded last week.
- Srinagar's most famous lake, Dal Lake has almost entirely swallowed this little island, Char Chinar.
- Officials said they did not have enough pumps to drain out the water that had swept through Srinagar, a city of 1 million ringed by mountains.
- The Budshah Bridge in the heart of Srinagar overflowed with water as the Jhelum river broke its banks.
- The state administration, which was itself knocked out after the waters of the Jhelum river gushed into the city centre, has struggled to cope with the flood, the worst in 109 years.
- The state’s first football pitch was laid at the Bakshi stadium just days before it went under water.
- Indian army and civilian boats trawled through the streets - now water channels - of capital Srinagar, picking up residents and delivering water, food and basic medicine to people who chose to remain camped out in the upper floors of their houses.
- The capital city, Srinagar has been transformed from a bustling metropolis into a flooded city and people fear an outbreak of diseases from vast fields of stagnant brown water.
About 150,000 people were still stranded in their homes a week after Jammu and Kashmir's worst flood in over a century. These terrifying before and after pictures will show the massive destruction the floods have caused. (Photo: Quartz)
Heart wrenching before and after pictures of the Kashmir floods
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