Hundreds die in India and Pakistan after heaviest rain in 50 years

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09-09-2014 | 05:33
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The death toll from the heaviest rain to fall on Kashmir in 50 years rose to at least 420 on Tuesday, with thousands still trapped on rooftops, as criticism of Indian and Pakistani authorities mounted.       

On the Indian side of the heavily militarised Line of Control that divides the Himalayan region, the city of Srinagar lay submerged along with more than 2,000 villages.         

"The damage is shocking, people have been stranded on the rooftops of their homes for the last three days in some parts of Kashmir," a senior official from India's National Disaster Response Force said in New Delhi.       

The official, who requested anonymity, said he would have deployed disaster response teams earlier, but "we were all caught off guard because there was not a single warning issued by the weather office. The flash floods took us by surprise".         

India's meteorological department had forecast heavy rain in Kashmir last week, but the Central Water Commission, which issues flood advisories, has been criticised by Indian media for not warning the state.        

Some 47,000 people have been evacuated from their homes in India, where 217 were reported dead by Tuesday. The Indian Air Force has airdropped over 550 tonnes of relief material, and 80 medical teams have established emergency health services in government schools and state-run health care centres.       

The flooding is the first major humanitarian emergency under new Indian prime minister Narendra Modi, but also comes at a difficult time for Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who has faced weeks of street protests aimed at forcing him out.          

Soldiers rescued families using boats or airlifted them from rooftops by helicopter after the river Jhelum burst its banks in Srinagar, but many more remained stranded.        


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