After a massive cloudburst triggered a flash flood in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar on Thursday, National Conference President Farooq Abdullah called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take global warming “very seriously.” He said such incidents are now common in hilly areas and urged the government to find ways to deal with them.
“This is a very unfortunate incident,” Abdullah told reporters. “I would like to tell the Prime Minister to take the issue of global warming very seriously. This has become very common in hilly areas. One or the other method will have to be looked for to overcome this. So, I appeal to him to think in this hour of grief about how this can be remedied,” he added.
The former J-K Chief Minister said rescue operations were currently underway, hoping that the death toll was not high.
"This is a very unfortunate incident. Cloudbursts have become a routine in our mountain areas. You saw this in Uttarakhand; you saw the damage there. It happened in Ramban last year. This time, it happened on the route of the Machail Mata Yatra. Lakhs of people undertake this Yatra...We hope that IAF helicopters are able to go there and retrieve the injured. Villages and the temple area have suffered damage...Rescue operation is underway...We hope that the death toll is not very high...," Farooq said.
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