A week on from flood, 150,000 still stranded in Indian Kashmir

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A week on from flood, 150,000 still stranded in Indian Kashmir

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/week-flood-150-000-still-stranded-indian-kashmir-125631836.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/296hjf4iSU_v2lIblDzH_g--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-09-14T125631Z_1_LYNXMPEA8D07W_RTROPTP_2_SOUTHASIA-FLOOD.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Indian army soldiers evacuate flood victims by a boat to a safer place in Srinagar" align="left" title="Indian army soldiers evacuate flood victims by a boat to a safer place in Srinagar" border="0" /></a>By Krista Mahr and Fayaz Bukhari SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - About 150,000 people were still stranded in their homes a week after Indian Kashmir's worst flood in over a century and fears grew on Sunday of an outbreak of diseases from vast fields of stagnant brown water. Indian army and civilian boats trawled through the streets -now water channels - of the state capital Srinagar ? picking up residents and delivering water, food and basic medicine to people who chose to remain camped out in the upper floors of their houses. The state administration, which was itself knocked out after the waters of the Jhelum river gushed into the city center, has struggled to cope with the flood, the worst in 109 years. The disaster has fueled public anger in the Muslim-majority region where a revolt against Indian rule has simmered for nearly a quarter century.</p><br clear="all"/>

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