New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Jammu on Sunday to personally review the situation in the flood-hit state after over 160 people lost their lives in the worst floods that the state has witnessed in the last 50 years.
Modi held a meeting with the state Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on the flood situation in the state at Jammu’s Technical Airport.
Modi will hold an aerial survey in Jammu zone and is scheduled to travel to Srinagar later today.
Modi is due to travel to Srinagar later today.
Even as rains stopped in the area today, reports of at least six people being killed in Jammu’s Udhampur area in landslide emerged.
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah took to Twitter today to assure people still stranded in the floods to not panic and that help is on the way.
He also tweeted that he has asked the Cabinet Secretary to use helicopters to evacuate people in danger.
