By way of PTI
JAMMU: The Amarnath Yatra has been suspended from Jammu because of inclement climate stipulations and no contemporary batch was once allowed to continue from right here to the bottom camps of the three,880-metre-high cave shrine in south Kashmir Himalayas, officers mentioned.
A flash flood prompted via a cloudburst close to the cave shrine on Friday afternoon has ended in the loss of life of least 16 other people. Round 40 persons are nonetheless lacking.
“Amarnath Yatra has been suspended from Jammu to dual base camps in Kashmir because of inclement climate. No contemporary batch was once allowed to transport against Amarnath” an legitimate mentioned.
The once a year 43-day pilgrimage commenced from the dual 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 introduced prayers on the cave shrine, housing the naturally shaped ice ‘shivling’, the officers mentioned.
A complete 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 primary batch of pilgrims was once flagged off via Lt Governor Manoj Sinha. The yatra is scheduled to finish on August 11 at the instance of Raksha Bandhan.