After a halt of two days due to the cloudburst tragedy that claimed 16 lives, the Amarnath Yatra was resumed on Monday morning. Thousands of pilgrims resumed their journey to the holy shrine.
About 2,000 to 3,000 pilgrims were allowed to move, according to officials, towards Chandanwari from the base camp.
“A fresh batch of yatris (pilgrims) have been allowed to proceed towards holy cave from the Nunwan Base Camp of Pahalgam. The Yatra was stopped for the last two days after cloudburst incident near the Amarnath holy cave,” an official said.
Deputy Commissioner Jammu, Avny Lavasa, had asked all the Yatris registered on or before July 11 to move to the Bhagwati Nagar base camp.
The annual 43-day pilgrimage had commenced from the twin base camps, Nunwan-Pahalgam in south Kashmir’s Anantnag and Baltal in central Kashmir’s Ganderbal, on June 30.
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Over one lakh pilgrims have offered prayers at the cave shrine, housing the naturally formed ice ‘shivling’, according to reports. 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.
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