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| Anger grows as police collect floating bodies | | | Jammu, Sept 11 : Authorities in Kashmir collected the bodies of women and children floating in the streets on Thursday as anger mounted over what many survivors said was a bungled operation to help those caught in the region's worst flooding in six decades.
The ferocity of the deluge appeared to have taken the state administration by surprise, triggering outrage, with the death toll crossing 200 and about 400,000 people still stranded.
Reports of state government officials being heckled by the residents came from all across Srinagar as floodwaters receded.
"It is a clear case of mismanagement. Why are the basic supplies still not made available?" asked journalist and author Basharat Peer, who is working as a volunteer in the Valley.
Some people in marooned villages of Jammu's Rajouri district contested official statements that food packets were air-dropped in these inaccessible areas.
Puran Singh, a former minister, trapped in the district's Kewal village, said he managed to contact the district magistrate who promised rescue but nobody came.
"This is an unprecedented situation. There is no way we could have prepared for it. Operations are being cranked up, supplies are arriving and we are doing our best," chief minister Omar Abdullah said. |
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