JAMMU, MAY 19: With reports of green gold getting reduced to ashes on a hill opposite Shri Mata Vaishno Devi shrine, forest fires continue to rage Trikuta Hills since Tuesday last.
Sources said that a massive fire had engulfed a vast stretch of forests on a hill opposite the holy shrine causing anxiety among pilgrims. The blaze was clearly visible to everybody from Bhawan area.
Meanwhile, though the Shrine Board, police and Forest staff controlled the forest fire in Himkoti area, pilgrimage to Shri Mata Vaishno Devi shrine remained suspended on Tarakote-Himkoti Marg since Wednesday.
According to police, yatra was, however, going on smoothly on the old and traditional Bangabga-Adh Kunwari-Sanji Chhat route.
Meanwhile, incidents of forest fires were also reported from near the LoC in Rajouri’s Subderbani area.
