A week on from flood, 150,000 still stranded in Indian Kashmir

An Indian Air Force helicopter flies above flooded-affected areas of Kashmir region September 13, 2014. REUTERS/India's Press Information Bureau/Handout via Reuters

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - About 150,000 people were still stranded in their homes a week after Indian Kashmir's worst flood in over a century and fears grew on Sunday of an outbreak of diseases from vast fields of stagnant brown water.

Indian army and civilian boats trawled through the streets -now water channels - of the state capital Srinagar – picking up residents and delivering water, food and basic medicine to people who chose to remain camped out in the upper floors of their houses.