At least 16 Amarnath pilgrims dead, dozens injured due to cloudburst at Baltal
At least 16 pilgrims died, and 40 others were missing after a cloudburst hit the Baltal base camp of Shri Amarnath yatra in central Kashmir's Ganderbal district on Friday.
Ruptly's footage from Saturday shows a camp in Sonamarg, where rescuers brought the injured people by helicopter.
The 43-day annual Yatra began on June 30, from the twin base camps of Nunwan in Pahalgam of south Kashmir’s Anantnag and Baltal camp in Central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district. In the first nine days of the yatra, over one lakh pilgrims have offered their prayers at the 3,880-metre-high cave shrine of Lord Shiva in the upper reaches of the southern Himalayas.
