The 32nd batch of Amarnath Yatris with over 1,100 p🐠ilgrims Thursday left the base camp here for the holy cave shrin🍎e in south Kashmir Himalayas amid tight security arrangements, officials said.
Over 4.3 lakh devotees paid obeisance at the 3888-metre high shrine since the commencement of the Yatra on July 1, the officials said. The 62-day annual pilgrimage to Amarnath shrine commenced from the twin tracks -- the traditional 48-𓄧km Nunwan-Pahalgam route in Anant♏nag and the shorter 14-km Baltal route in the Ganderbal -- on July 1.
In the early hours of Thursday, 1,198 pilgrims -- 1,023 men, 116 women, 58 seers and a child -- left the Bhagwati Nagar base camp here 🦄for the twin base camps of Baltal and Pahalgam in a convoy of 43 vehicles, the officials said.
As many as 932 pilgri🥂ms, headed for Pahalgam, left in a convoy of 33 vehicles, while another convoy of 10 vehicles carrying 266 pilgrims left for the Ba✱ltal base camp, they added. The Yatra is scheduled to conclude on August 31.
