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PWD clearing roads in Bhagwati Nagar as a part of their Jammu flood relief works. In September 2014, the Jammu & Kashmir region was hit by heavy floods caused by torrential rainfall. The regions of Jammu and Kashmir in India, as well as Azad Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan and Punjab in Pakistan, were affected by these floods.[5] By September 7 2014, nearly 200 people in India and 280 people in Pakistan had died due to the floods. According to the Home Ministry of India, several thousand villages across the state had been hit and 350 villages had been submerged. So far 2,00,000 people have been rescued, including 87,000 from Srinagar city. Many parts of Srinagar, including the Border Security Force (BSF) HQ in Santnagar & Army cantonment in Badamibagh, were inundated, and vital roads were submer