Five days of incessant rains in Jammu and Kashmir have left at least 160 people dead in the region’s worst flooding in more than five decades, submerging hundreds of villages and triggering landslides, officials said.

PM announces Rs.1000 crore aid

After assessing the flood situation in Jammu and Kashmir, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday declared the situation a “national-level disaster” and announced a special assistance of Rs.1,000 crore for the flood-hit state besides Rs.2 lakh compensation from the Prime Minister’s Relief Fund for the kin of the dead and Rs.50,000 for those seriously injured. Hear what the PM said about the floods

Modi, who took an aerial view of the flood-affected regions, said the current crisis was a “national level disaster”.