40 AP students rescued from J&K floods

At least 40 students hailing from Andhra Pradesh have been rescued from the floods in Jammu and Kashmir and are on their way back to their hometowns in the southern state.

According to AP government's special representative in New Delhi, Kambhampati Ramamohan Rao, the students are flying out from Srinagar airport to Delhi today. They would be travelling to Hyderabad from the Delhi airport.

In total, about 76 students, hailing from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, studying in NIT Srinagar, have been so far rescued from the floods in Jammu and Kashmir in the last two days.