Batch of over 3,700 pilgrims leave Jammu for Amarnath shrine

JAMMU: A fresh batch of over 3,700 pilgrims left Jammu on Monday for the twin base camps of the cave shrine of Amarnath in the south Kashmir Himalayas amid tight security arrangements, officials said.

So far, over 3 lakh pilgrims have paid obeisance at the ice lingam of Lord Shiva at the 3,880-metre-high shrine since the yatra began on July 3.

Escorted by CRPF and police personnel, the batch of 3,791 pilgrims — 3,067 men, 522 women, nine children, 192 sadhus and sadhvis, and a transgender — left the Bhagwati Nagar base camp here in 148 vehicles between 3.33 am and 4.06 am, they said. PTI