Many dead in Jammu & Kashmir floods, bus mishap
Residents struggle to withstand currents while wading through floodwaters
By : DC Correspondent
Update: 2014-09-05 02:33 GMT
SRINAGAR:Flash floods caused by incessant rains over the past three days killed twenty two people in different parts of Jammu and Kashmir. The Army’s Srinagar-based 15 (Chinar) Corps has launched ‘Operation Sahayata’ to rescue people trapped in inundated areas across the Valley
A bus with 35 passengers on board was on Thursday washed away in Rajouri district. Officials said that six passengers have been rescued and rest all are feared dead. On Thursday afternoon, Jhelum touched 21.8 feet level against danger level of 18 feet at Ram Munchi Bagh in Srinagar. Total discharge of the river was at 70,000 cusecs against normal of 25,000C.
A message posted on twitter by the Union home ministry said that the National Disaster Respo-nse Force (NDRF) teams have been dispatched to the site to help with search and rescue operation.
The worse affected are villages in the districts of Anantnag, Pulwama, Sho-pian and Kulgam in south Kashmir and Srinagar and Budgam in central Kashmir. In Jammu, frontier districts of Poonch and Rajouri and also Doda, Kishtwar, Reasi, Udhampur and Ramban have seen incidents of house collapses, leaving more than 15 people dead.