Amarnath cloudburst: search for survivors still on, Army deploys high-tech radars

The Indian Army has started using high-tech radars that help detect presence of people behind barriers or walls as it continues to search for survivors under the debris after cloudburst near Amarnath cave on Friday triggered flash floods.

At least 16 people died in the natural disaster while over 30 are still missing.

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Meanwhile, the Amarnath Yatra has been suspended from Jammu due to inclement weather conditions and no fresh batch was allowed to proceed to the base camps of the 3,880-metre-high cave shrine in south Kashmir Himalayas, officials said.

The annual 43-day pilgrimage commenced from the twin base camps -- Nunwan-Pahalgam in south Kashmir's Anantnag and Baltal in central Kashmir's Ganderbal -- on June 30.

Over one lakh pilgrims have offered prayers at the cave shrine, housing the naturally formed ice 'shivling', the officials said.

A total of 69,535 pilgrims have left in 10 batches from the Bhagwati Nagar base camp in Jammu for the Valley since June 29, the day the first batch of pilgrims was flagged off by Lt Governor Manoj Sinha.

The yatra is scheduled to end on August 11 on the occasion of Raksha Bandhan.

With PTI inputs