"A new method called cloudburst has come. They say there are conspiracies around it.Some foreign countries are deliberately doing cloudbursts in our country. Earlier, they did it in Leh (Ladakh). Later, they did it in Uttarakhand."
Amarnath Yatra was suspended on Thursday due to bad weather as rains lashed the Kashmir Valley, officials said. The annual pilgrimage had commenced on Monday following the cloudburst that occurred on July 8.
Jammu and Kashmir LG Manoj Sinha said for the future they are planning a more secure pilgrimage and the matter has been taken up with engineers and digital mapping of the Amarnath holy cave will be done to make the yatra safer.
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The Indian Air Force on Saturday said it deployed eight helicopters as part of the rescue and relief operations following the cloudburst incident near the Amarnath cave shrine.