Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Apr 27: A 10-year-old girl today drowned in flash floods caused due to heavy rains while water level in Dal lake has risen since this morning flooding several localities in and around the lake.
Reports said that a 10 year girl student, Tabasum Gulzar daughter of Gulzar Ahmad Mir of Gujarpati Wadderbala Rajwar area of Handwara in the frontier district of Kupwara was washed away in flash floods when she was on her way to school.
Tabasum was crossing the Nalla this morning and was washed away in flash floods. Her body was recovered this afternoon by Handwara police under supervision of SP Handwara Ghulam Jeelani Wani.
Several city roads were water logged due to heavy overnight rains causing problems to the commuters. The roads in Residency Road, Jehangir Chowk, Jawahar Nagar, Batmaloo and several other localities were waterlogged.
The water level in river Jhelum rose by over a feet but it was not alarming as there was less rain in South Kashmir than North and Central Kashmir.
The water in Dal lake rose by around half a feet inundating areas in and around the lake. A local resident of Dal lake, Abdul Majid, said that water level is 4 feet above the normal water level of the lake. He said that since morning water level of the lake has risen by around four feet inundating several areas.
Majid said that water level was already over several feet above the normal and since heavy overnight rains it has increased alarmingly. Nehru Park is already inundated and today the water level rose again.
The residents said that water level was already high by a two feet and for past over a week the water level is rising slowly taking it to 4 feet high from the normal water level.
Due to heavy overnight rains water has entered several villages in North Kashmir including Singpora Pattan, Hartar Sopore, Ningli Sopore, Choora Sopore, Buran Pattan, Hanjiveera, Zangam, Palhalan Ghat, Wagoora, Wudar Bala Handwara and Sheeri Baramulla. At several places the roads are waterlogged.
Residents living around the Wullar lake have also complained of waterlogging. They said that the Wullar has lost carrying capacity and over the years their villages are mostly waterlogged.
The Director Meteorological department, Sonam Lotus, today said that there will be significant decrease in rainfall from tomorrow morning while the weather will remain mostly dry from Tuesday to Thursday evening. “Light rainfall may occur tomorrow but from Wednesday till Thursday evening the weather will remain dry. From Thursday evening, Valley may witness light rainfall that may continue till May 2,” he said adding that there is no need to panic and the intensity of rainfall this time will be low.
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