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Srinagar, India: Early this week, as the flooding in Kashmir was entering a new and terrifying phase, the Indian army's public information office received a call from Raheel Khursheed, a former journalist and digital obsessive who serves as the director of news, politics and government at Twitter India. He had a proposal.

Over the weekend, floodwaters had inundated ground-floor equipment rooms for most of the region's telecommunications service providers, crashing mobile-phone networks across the state. Local officials had no way to contact the federal government, or each other, or the army, which had been mobilized as part of a rescue effort. Although the army has satellite phones, they were of little help without knowing where people were waiting for rescue.

There was one place where information was flowing at a nearly unmanageable volume, and that was on social media.

So many messages were surging into Twitter under the hashtag #KashmirFloods that Tuesday, Khursheed's colleagues commissioned a piece of code that could winnow out those that identified stranded people. He then called the Indian army - which has only two officers permanently assigned to monitor social-media postings - to offer the authorities a slimmed-down, organized feed that he described as "a continuously updating stream of 'save me's.'"

"We are always organizing data at Twitter," said Khursheed, 31. "It just seemed to me to be the most obvious thing to do: How is it that we can, as a platform, make it easier for the army to do what it needs to do?"

In this week's frantic rescue effort, one unexpected development is the army's use of Twitter, WhatsApp and Facebook to reach families. Twenty years ago, when social media first emerged, India's government - like its counterparts in Beijing and Moscow - regarded it warily, as a force that could undermine state power. In the restive, majority-Muslim region of Kashmir, in particular, state authorities have been swift to block access to material it considered incendiary.

However, as this week's rescue efforts suggest, "the government is now seeking to conduct its business through these media," said Samir Saran, a policy analyst who worked as telecommunications executive in the early 2000s.

One driver of this change, he said, is the new prime minister, Narendra Modi, who regards social media as a central link to the public. Modi's example has filtered through the system. "If they see a man at the top embracing this form of communication - when you have someone who is bypassing traditional media and communicating this way - that is a sign," said Saran, a senior fellow at the Observer Research Foundation, a policy research group based in New Delhi. "You don't have to be told more."

Relief efforts continued Friday in Srinagar, where rescue workers described watching people tie dead bodies to trees and electrical poles to keep them from washing away. Facing mounting public anger, Omar Abdullah, the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, told NDTV, a news channel, that during the first days of the crisis, as floodwaters inundated the capital, "I had no government."

"My secretariat, the police headquarters, the control room, fire services, hospitals, all the infrastructure was underwater," he said. "I had no cellphone and no connectivity. I am now starting to track down ministers and officers. Today I met ministers who were swept up by the floods."

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According to a tape of the emergency call made by Mr Apperson and released by the police, Mr Zimmerman made other threats.

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Mr Apperson said he had pulled into a nearby filling station to call the police because he did not have his mobile phone and the truck followed him.

Two days later Mr Apperson alleged that he saw Mr Zimmerman outside his workplace and called the police again.

Police questioned Mr Zimmerman briefly before allowing him to go.

Bianca Gillett, a police spokesman said that Mr Apperson chose not to press charges.

As of now, the incident is closed. If the victim did wish to assist with prosecution, we could reopen and review the incident at that time,' she said.

The road rage incident was Mr Zimmermans latest brush with the law after his acquittal of the murder of Trayvon Martin, a black teenager.

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