Rescue and Rehabilitation Continues in Flood-Hit Jammu & Kashmir
Updated: September 18, 2014 17:28 IST
The rescue operations in the flood-hit valley continue as the flood water starts to recede and survivors seek to be reunited with their families. Government along with various organisations and individual volunteers have intensified the flood relief programmes to provide basic eminities such as food, water and clothing to the affected people.
Relief material is being unloaded at a relief camp in Srinagar run by young working professionals and students.(Picture by: Arshad Rasool Zargar)
Kashmiri local volunteers store rice bags at a make-shift relief camp set up in a Srinagar school.(Picture by: Arshad Rasool Zargar)
Water level still high outside Lalla Ded maternity hospital in Srinagar, which had to be evacuated last week as the ground floor was completely submerged in flood water.(Picture by: Arshad Rasool Zargar)
A popular market near Lalla Ded hospital in Srinagar is still under water.(Picture by: Arshad Rasool Zargar)
Army jawans supply relief material to people in Sarai Bala area of Srinagar who have chosen to stay back in their houses.(Picture by: Arshad Rasool Zargar)
An army boat is carrying medicines, milk, bread and other relief material to people in Budshah chowk area of Srinagar.(Picture by: Arshad Rasool Zargar)
An old woman hangs her bag out from the first floor of her house to collect relief material being provided by the army.
Woman calls out to a relief team in a boat to ask for drinking water. People in a popular jewelry market in Srinagar have chosen to not leave their houses for the fear of robberies.(Picture by: Arshad Rasool Zargar)
People in Srinagar wait at the corner of a flooded street for relief material.
Flooded streets outside Lalla Deb hospital.(Picture by: Arshad Rasool Zargar)
The stagnant flood water poses a serious threat of the outbreak of Cholera and other water borne diseases.(Picture by: Arshad Rasool Zargar)
Several houses have collapsed in Srinagar, forcing people to camp on roads. With winter approaching, the authorities will have to evacuate the homeless to better places.(Picture by: Arshad Rasool Zargar)
People camping in a tent on a highway in Srinagar.(Picture by: Arshad Rasool Zargar)
Children rendered homeless by the floods kill time making drawings at a local mosque in Srinagar. Several schools in Srinagar are submerged.(Picture by: Arshad Rasool Zargar)
