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EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, July 23: A day after the yatra was suspended due to inclement weather, no fresh batch of pilgrims was allowed to leave for the holy Amarnath cave shrine from the base camps at Jammu, Nunwan and Baltal.
However, with improvement in weather conditions, authorities allowed thousands of pilgrims stranded en route to the shrine to move towards their destinations, official sources said, adding that about 800 pilgrims offered prayers at the shrine this afternoon.
"No pilgrim was allowed to proceed towards the cave shrine from the base camps of Nunwan and Baltal in Kashmir and Bhagwati Nagar in Jammu this morning," sources said.
The decision was taken in view of bad weather and to clear the route of pilgrims stranded at various halting stations enroute the 3,880 metre high cave shrine.
Over 7,400 pilgrims were stranded at Sheshnag, most of whom had already paid obeisance and were returning to the base camps, the sources added.
Meanwhile, a woman pilgrim, identified as Neelam (45) of Maharashtra died of cardiac arrest at Sheshnag along the traditional 46-km long Pahalgam route this morning.
Two more pilgrims identified as Baskar Pondeer (54) of Madya Pradesh and Suti Lal Gupta of Uttar Pradesh also died of heart failure at Dumail and Kangan along the Baltal route in Ganderbal district last evening.
Altogther 43 plgrims have died during the ongoing yatra which commenced on July 1 and was suspended yesterday following inclement weather. So far, 2,92,521 pilgrims have paid obeisance at the shrine housing the naturally formed ice Shivalingam. |
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