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- Written by: Mudasir Rashid
- Category: ENVIRONMENT
BALTAL: Three people were killed and dozens others were injured after a cloudburst triggered flash floods near the Baltal base camp of the Amarnath Yatra in Central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district on Friday last evening. The three non local bodies were found today on Saturday ' which include two minor" a girl, aged 13 and a boy, aged 12."and another non local dead body was found after the massive search operation". While dozens sustained injured.
The deceased have been identified as Miss Pooja (13 years) daughter of Shri Prakash residence of Rajastan and Shri Vikram (12 years) son of Shri Kailash residence of Rajasthan' both were the children of two polish vendors and another Deepak Singh S/o Shri Gopal Prasad R/o Sunder Nagri, Delhi.
The cloudburst struck near Baltal base camp on Friday 10:30 pm" the flood water entered and damagrd properties including' thirty tents' eight vehicles' fifty shops and several ponies were washed away in the flood." while other pilgrims have been moved to safer places.
After the incident of hovic flood in Amarnath base camp' Senior Civil and police officers and the Yatra Camp Director, along with personnel of J&K Police, NDRF, SDRF, Army and Central Armed Police Forces immediately swung into action to carry out search and rescue operations.
Jatindra Kumar Singh Additional CEO, SASB along with" Showkat Aijaz Bhat, Deputy Commissioner, Ganderbal and Imtiaz Ismail, SSP, Ganderbal also reached Baltal early this morning for supervising the rescue and relief operations. Several people are stranded on the Srinagar-Leh highway which was closed last night following the flash floods. Meanwhile, the yatra has been suspended from the Baltal route and the traffic on the Srinagar- Leh national highway is also suspended.
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