The seven-day-old infant was trapped on the top floor of a house with its young mother.
This morning, a group of soldiers waded into one of the innumerable parts of Srinagar where families are still being held hostage in their homes by several feet of water and heard a baby's cries.
The seven-day-old infant was trapped on the top floor of a house with its young mother.
A soldier made his way over; carefully, through an open window, he reached for the baby, bundled up in a white blanket. The baby was then passed on to another soldier, and slowly, carefully, the precious cargo was delivered to safety. "This is the rescue we are proudest of today," said one the men.
Nearly a week has passed since the skies split open over Jammu and Kashmir, unleashing a torrent of ferocious rain. Srinagar has been flooded since the weekend, when the River Jhelum, swollen by unusually heavy rain, imperiled the city of nearly one million people.
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Officials say 220 people have been killed so far; one lakh ten thousand have been brought to safety by the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and the armed forces, who have shown limitless courage and initiative at a time when angry residents accuse the state administration of having failed them completely. (
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