Dehradun:Prayers will resume on Wednesday in the presence of a 24member team of priests and temple committee officials after a sanctification and atonement ceremony at the calamity-hit Kedarnath shrine on Wednesday, 86 days after flashfloods in Uttarakhand left hundreds of pilgrims and locals dead.

The chief priest of Kedarnath shrine, Rawal Bhima Shankar Ling Shivacharya, will give final touches for the prayers on Wednesday. Uttarakhand Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna accompanied by his ministerial colleagues will participate in the prayers,sources said.

The combing operation launched on Tuesday last in the upper reaches of Kedar valley to trace bodies has been suspended now with the ritual cremation of 185 skeletal remains recovered from Garurchatti and Rambara areas close to the Himalayan shrine, DGP Satyavrat Bansal said. The operation will resume again after the prayers.