through after floods he said we paid rs 50 for four puris and rs 60 for a bottle of water jitendra searched for sharda and yashi for six days jitendra tripathi a resident of rasoolabad kanur dehat district and his wife arti along with one another member of the family returned home on saturday the sevenyearold boy and his father had spent sleepless night waiting and searching for their family members who were swept away by the flashflood following the cloudburst water was everywhere emotions ran high as he narrated the harrowing experience of spending 13 days in the floodravaged area with a kid running high fever still hopeful of finding the two alive he knows time is running out when i returned to my senses all my family members were missing we were witness of the evil side of people who were busy looting gold ornaments from bodies and stealing money from pilgrims the swift water current destroyed everything that came in its way said mishra from a group of 18 only four returned from uttarakhand on saturday after braving adversities for 13 days i held my daughters hand it was a near death experience he muttered