New Delhi, Sept. 5 -- Mohammad Ashraf Bulaki and his neighbours were sitting outside their houses at Zinipora near Pampore town around 2.15 am on September 4, 2025, when they heard a noise just 70 to 80 metres away. They ran towards the sound and found water gushing out from a damaged embankment on the Jhelum river.

"For last two days, we have been alert during the night due to fear the Jhelum might breach, as we live just adjacent to it. We don't know whether the embankment breached on its own or it was a human-made breach by authorities to save Srinagar city, which is around 11 kilometres (km) downstream. In the past, the authorities would make a breach around Kandizal which is around four km upstream from our village. Hundreds of peop...