35th Amarnath Yatra batch with over 1,200 pilgrims leaves from Jammu camp
JAMMU, Aug 1 (PTI): A fresh batch of over 1,200 pilgrims on Thursday early morning left from the Jammu base camp for the Amarnath cave shrine in the south Kashmir Himalayas amid tight security, officials said.
According to the officials, this batch had the lowest number of devotees leaving Bhagwati Nagar base camp in Jammu since the commencement of the 52-day-long yatra from the twin base camps of Pahalgam in Anantnag district and Baltal in Ganderbal district on June 29.
This year’s yatra has already crossed the 4.5 lakh-mark of last year, with over 4.7 lakh pilgrims so far paying obeisance at the naturally-formed ice lingam at the 3,880-metre-high cave shrine, they said.
