J&K: NDRF - assaults making rescue operations difficult

As people waited here for rescue on rooftops and balconies, fear was giving way on Wednesday to anger and resentment over what some saw as a slow response to flooding that began last week and has left hundreds dead in northern India and eastern Pakistan.

In the Wazir Bagh neighborhood, where the water was about five feet at its deepest point, residents watched rescue boats make their way to another area where the waters were higher. Some said only the politically connected were being evacuated. Others complained that the rescue teams were incompetent.

On Monday, Mr. Singh said, an aggressive crowd tried to take boats and equipment from the rescue team, and one member was hurt in the ensuing struggle.

“They are pelting our boats with their stones,” said Kishore Prasad, a spokesman for the Central Reserve Police Force, at its quarters in the Rambagh neighborhood of Srinagar. He said it would take at least two more days to rescue the thousands still stranded in Srinagar.


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