Tuesday 13 August 2013

Heavy rains halt Amarnath yatra

Photo: Heavy rains halt Amarnath yatra

News (13.08.2013) #SRINAGAR: The ongoing pilgrimage to the cave shrine of Amarnath in southern #Kashmir was on Tuesday suspended from #Pahalgam and #Baltal base camps as heavy rains lashed wide parts of the valley, officials in Srinagar said.

“Heavy rains rendered the twin tracks leading to the cave shrine from Pahalgam in Anantnag district and Baltal in Ganderbal district unsafe, prompting the authorities to suspend the yatra at around 1 pm”, they said.

They said several hundred pilgrims who had left for the cave shrine from the base camps of Nunwan along the 45 km traditional Pahalgam route and the shorter 16 km Baltal route have reached different camp sites and are safe.

“The pilgrims have been directed to stay back at the camps till further orders”, the officials said.

The authorities are monitoring the weather on an hourly basis and have decided to resume the yatra once rains stop and the tracks are safe for movement of the people, they added.

Meanwhile, an unidentified sadhu died of cardiac arrest at Sheshnag along the Pahalgam-cave route on Monday, raising the death toll in the ongoing yatra to 14.

The yatra commenced on June 28 and is scheduled to end on August 21 coinciding with the Hindu festival of ‘Raksha Bandhan’.

Until now, over 3.51 lakh pilgrims have paid their obeisance. (PTI)

Heavy rains halt Amarnath yatra

News (13.08.2013) ‪#‎SRINAGAR‬: The ongoing pilgrimage to the cave shrine of Amarnath in southern ‪#‎Kashmir‬ was on Tuesday suspended from ‪#‎Pahalgam‬ and ‪#‎Baltal‬ base camps as heavy rains lashed wide parts of the valley, officials in Srinagar said.

“Heavy rains rendered the twin tracks leading to the cave shrine from Pahalgam in Anantnag district and Baltal in Ganderbal district unsafe, prompting the authorities to suspend the yatra at around 1 pm”, they said.

They said several hundred pilgrims who had left for the cave shrine from the base camps of Nunwan along the 45 km traditional Pahalgam route and the shorter 16 km Baltal route have reached different camp sites and are safe.

“The pilgrims have been directed to stay back at the camps till further orders”, the officials said.

The authorities are monitoring the weather on an hourly basis and have decided to resume the yatra once rains stop and the tracks are safe for movement of the people, they added.

Meanwhile, an unidentified sadhu died of cardiac arrest at Sheshnag along the Pahalgam-cave route on Monday, raising the death toll in the ongoing yatra to 14.

The yatra commenced on June 28 and is scheduled to end on August 21 coinciding with the Hindu festival of ‘Raksha Bandhan’.

Until now, over 3.51 lakh pilgrims have paid their obeisance. (PTI)


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