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Sufferings Of Victims Of Flash Floods In India
By KTM Metro Reporter
June 24, 2013: if you watch the TV news you see the Indian army making efforts on rescuing the stranded pilgrims in Kedarnath and Badrinath in India. If you listen to the rescued pilgrims you have different stories.
You see only a few helicopters parked at onetime for the rescue operations on the TVs when the requirement is hundreds of helicopters. Even the few helicopters did not fly because of the bad weather. Time has been running short for the stranded pilgrims.
One lady pilgrim told on TV camera that she paid 180 rupees for a glass of water. Another lady also told on camera that she had two bottles of water. She managed to share the water among 50 people each having a gulp of water.
An old man told the reporter that the helicopter dropped off water bottles but all bottles were broken on landing. The helicopter pilots have done their duties but who cares that duty has been sensible or not.
Still thousands of pilgrims have been waiting for rescue but the lackluster rescue operations of the Indian government have not been able to reach the pilgrims even after a week of the flood disaster.
Many Nepalese pilgrims have been stranded, too in Badrinath and Kedarnath. The unofficial news circulating among the Nepalese in Kathmandu says that at least two-bus loads of Nepalese pilgrims have gone missing in the flooded river.
