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A broken television cable that connected them Flood stories 9/22/2014 11:59:25 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, Sept 22: Ashiq Husain was looking at the once busy Airport Road from the second floor window of his house at Magarmal crossing on September 8. A day earlier floods had wreaked havoc in the entire city. The busy and important road had turned into a roaring river. Ashiq saw gas cylinders, water tanks, furniture, cars and a variety of goods being washed away by the water. He was worried about the machines in his shop (PCO) in the ground floor of the house. Suddenly he saw an army boat approaching the Government building housing some newspaper offices and `influential' families. The rescue attempt, Ashiq said failed as the boat capsized. The RR Jawans managed to get on the boat again but a soldier was carried away (to some distance) by the angry waves. "The soldier did not lose his nerves and responded to my calls. The floods had destroyed everything. I could lay my hands on a television cable in time to throw it towards the drowing soldier. He caught the cable much to the relief of my mother who was screaming for the hapless soldier. I pulled the cable slowly and in a few minutes managed to drag the soldier to my room," Ashiq said. The soldier embraced Ashiq and touched the feet of his mother who was in teers by now. The soldier was given a cup of hot tea. He sat there for quite some time till his colleagues returned and rescued him. The soldier has promised to pay Ashiq's family a visit. "It was a special feeling. Humanity recognises no barriers. We are fiends," he said.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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