Srinagar, Aug. 27 -- The pilgrimage to the shrine was suspended when the mountainside gave way and stones, boulders, and rocks came hurtling down around 3 pm on Tuesday, catching people unawares. Rescuers pulled out more bodies from under the debris a day after the disaster struck the route to the hilltop shrine in Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi district.

Talking to reporters here, the chief minister said, "We will have to talk about it later. When we knew about the weather, should we not have taken certain steps to save those lives? The weather warning had come to us a few days ago."

Posing questions for officials, he further said, "Why were these people on the track? Why were they not stopped? Why were they not moved to a safe place? This ...