Pulwama: A total of 100 students- 60 girls and 40 boys- are stranded in Awantipore University hostels in Pulwama.
According to the police, the girls have been shifted to another hostel which is safer and with the provision of food. They will be sent home once the highways are through.
The situation in the state continues to be grim with a red alert being issued for parts of South Srinagar as the Jhelum has breached its embankment in Pulwama. More than 100 people have lost their lives in the past two days in heavy rains and floods. Traffic on the Jammu-Pathankot highway has been stopped after incessant rain.
The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) is moving teams to Srinagar and Jammu for rescue and relief operations.
Meanwhile, Home Minister Rajnath Singh held a meeting with Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to take stock of the flood situation in Jammu and Kashmir. Singh arrived in Srinagar on Saturday morning and went straight into a meeting with the CM in the technical area of the airport where both discussed steps to meet the situation arising out of the worst floods in the state in six decades.
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