Residents of Indian Kashmir turned their wrath on state administrators, accusing them of failing to provide them with help after the worst flooding in over a century, and angrily dumped food parcels into gutters.
A week into the disaster, which one state official estimates could cost close to $1 billion in damages, large parts of Srinagar — the capital of Jammu and Kashmir — are under water and many people are still trapped atop their homes. Others are crowded in relief camps.
Their misery has added to problems of the administration in a Muslim-majority region where a revolt against Indian rule has simmered for nearly a quarter century.