{"id":182781,"date":"2025-09-04T11:30:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T06:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=182781"},"modified":"2025-09-04T11:30:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T06:30:03","slug":"10000-people-evacuated-in-budgam-following-breach-in-jhelum-embankment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/09\/04\/10000-people-evacuated-in-budgam-following-breach-in-jhelum-embankment.html","title":{"rendered":"10,000 people evacuated in Budgam following breach in Jhelum embankment"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_182786\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-182786\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-182786\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/09\/PTI08_27_2025_000268B-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/09\/PTI08_27_2025_000268B-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/09\/PTI08_27_2025_000268B-scaled-1-390x220.jpg 390w, https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/09\/PTI08_27_2025_000268B-scaled-1-780x438.jpg 780w, https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/09\/PTI08_27_2025_000268B-scaled-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/09\/PTI08_27_2025_000268B-scaled-1-1536x863.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/09\/PTI08_27_2025_000268B-scaled-1-2048x1151.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-182786\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anantnag: People stranded in a waterlogged area following heavy rainfall, in Anantnag, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025. (PTI Photo)(PTI08_27_2025_000268B)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Srinagar: In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, around 10,000 people have been evacuated from affected areas in Budgam measure following a breach in the Jhelum embankment.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, this was confirmed by Divisional Commissioner Kashmir, Anshul Garg, on Thursday. He also urged people not to panic, assuring that the situation is under control as water level is receding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome areas of Budgam were inundated, but as a precautionary measure, we carried out evacuations last night itself. Around 9,000 people were safely shifted to avoid any loss of life,\u201d Garg said. However, dozens were evacuated later on.<\/p>\n<p>The Divisional Commissioner said weather conditions have improved since last night and water level at key spots including Sangam and Ram Munshi Bagh are gradually decreasing.<\/p>\n<p>He added that preventive evacuations are also being carried out in parts of Srinagar, especially low-lying areas like Lasjan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, around 10,000 people have been evacuated from affected areas in Budgam measure following a breach in the Jhelum embankment. According to Kashmir Media Service, this was confirmed by Divisional Commissioner Kashmir, Anshul Garg, on Thursday. He also urged people not to panic, assuring that the situation is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":182786,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indian-occupied-jammu-and-kashmir"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/09\/PTI08_27_2025_000268B-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}