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Amarnath Yatra Flash Flood - IAS Academy In Coimbatore
Amarnath Yatra Flash Flood - IAS Academy In Coimbatore
Tragedy strikes Amarnath Yatra camp:
Flash floods triggered by torrential rain hit a camp near the temple of Amarnath Cave in the Gandbar district of Jammu and Kashmir on Friday (July 8). More than a dozen people were killed and nearly 30 injured.
About 15,000 people were rescued. Heavy rain occurred around 6 p.m. and washed away at least 25 tents in the camp. The Army, Johnson & Johnson Police and the National Disaster Relief Force have rushed to the scene to carry out rescue and disaster relief.
Amarnath Yatra has been suspended until rescue operations are over. A Mi-17 helicopter has been commissioned. The injured were airlifted for treatment. Heavy rain is a short-duration heavy rainfall event in a small area.
Climate change will increase the frequency and intensity of heavy rains, according to multiple studies. Amarnath Yatra started on June 30 and is expected to last 43 days.
It was organized two years after J&K's special status and the pandemic were revoked in August 2019. Pilgrims wait in line to register for Yatra in Jammu on Saturday.
Srinagar:
On Thursday, Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha said there was a lot of misinformation and rumours being spread by the media following the recent flash floods near the Amarnath cave shrine, saying rescue operations launched after flash floods that killed 15 people had been called off and there were There are no reports of anyone missing.
He said the wounded who were being treated in hospitals in Srinagar would also be sent back to their hometowns soon. Sinha said the shrine council's helpline had received about 200 calls and it would take some time to track down the yatris as their phones were turned off.
He said the J&J government has been in touch with all state governments where Yatris were injured or killed in the incident. Sinha said reports of the disappearance of 37 pilgrims from Andhra Pradesh (AP) were false. He added that AP officials had notified the Texas government that all of their pilgrims had been rescued.
"Fifteen pilgrims lost their lives, all of them have been identified. Fifty-five people were injured and all but two have been discharged home," Raj Bhavan, who is here in Sinha, told reporters. The lieutenant-governor said the two injured are being treated at SKIMS Soura here and they are said to be in stable condition.
"I hope they will be released within a few days as well," he said, adding that 14 bodies were sent to families in different states and the cremation of one of them was done here by the family. He said the government was in contact with all state governments and no one was missing so far.
There is hope and relief that 35 'lost' pilgrims from Andhra Pradesh are safe as the journey to tragically stricken Amarnath Yatra restarts from Jammu on Monday. Rain-triggered flash floods in southern Kashmir killed 16 people on July 8, but they escaped by trekking to safer areas.
Of the 37 pilgrims from the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, one woman was found dead and another remained missing, authorities reported. The body of Gunisetti Sudha, 48, of Rajahmundri, was found by her husband Vijay Kiran in a hospital morgue in Srinagar as rescuers tried to find others ) found and recognized. An estimated 15,000 people were in the highlands when it rained, including about 72 AP members.
Amarnath Yatra, which has been held in Kashmir since June 30, was suspended on Tuesday due to bad weather. No group of pilgrims are allowed to travel from the Nuwan stronghold of Pahalgan and Baltar to the holy sites in the southern Himalayas of Kashmir. According to the government, the decision was made to ensure the safety of pilgrims.
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