Jammu: Border villages plead for safer future

FLOOD FURY

- PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Jammu’s border villages, which have long been terrorised by cross-border shelling, are braving an even more serious threat today as flash floods caused by unprecedented monsoon rains have left their homes broken, farmlands ruined and their futures uncertain.

The villagers in Pallanwala sector and R $ Pura live a life of fear and loss, pleading for relocation, relief and a future where their children can grow without bullets or water sweeping away their homes.

In Pallanwala sector along the Line of Control (LoC), flash floods caused because of the swollen Chenab August 26 submerged villages up to the first floor of houses, washed away roads and livestock, and displaced more than 3,000 to 4,000 people.