Aman Zutshi
A man survived and one remained missing after a flash flood appeared at Panchari in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur district yesterday night.
According to the sources, the mishap happened at 8:30pm when two bike borne men who was going from Panchari to Galeote got trapped in a flash flood, when they reached on a diversion bridge in Galeote.
While one of the man washed away due to the flash flood with his bike, while the other survived it and was rescued by the police and local people, when a large scale search & rescue operation was launched, after the villagers heard his screams for help.
One man has been identified as Anil Kumar son of Jagdish Raj resident of Omala Morh, Udhampur and the other missing person has been identified as Suraj Goswami resident of Police Training College (PTC), Udhampur.
A search and rescue operation is still going on in the supervision of SHO Udhampur police station Amit Sharma in Galeote to trace the missing man.
The bike borne duo were going to Galeote to pay condolences to the missing man’s deceased sister.
