Relief operations in flood-hit Jammu & Kashmir were briefly hampered on Sunday morning due to rain even as the armed forces and NDRF rescued another 60,000 people trapped in flood waters in Kashmir valley.
Rainfall accompanied by thunder and lightning lashed Srinagar and other parts of the valley, on Sunday morning, triggering fears about more trouble in the area which is already reeling under the devastation caused by incessant rain last week.. The weather had been clear for the past five days after incessant rain led to unprecedented floods in the valley.
However, the rainfall which started at around 8.30am stopped within an hour.
In view of the rainfall and dense clouds, IAF halted its flights to ferry relief supplies even though emergency operations of transporting medicines were maintained, IAF officials said, adding normal relief operations by IAF choppers resumed at 11.15am.
"The weather is very bad. We have had to halt our operations for some time and we are waiting for the weather to clear," Indian Air Force spokesman Gerard Galway said. "We are hopeful that we should be back to efforts as soon as the weather clears," he added.Amid fears of an epidemic breaking out due to floods in Jammu & Kashmir, the state government is gearing up to contain the damage and wants the Centre to speedily send medicines as well as at least 300 paramedic staff.
The department of health services is making arrangements on war-footing, issuing advisories, deploying doctors and paramedics across the valley, besides dispatching drugs and medicines.
The outbreak of epidemic is feared because of filth that has accumulated across the valley along with the death of animals and their carcasses floating around in the flood waters.
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