According to officials, the Yatra was temporarily suspended on July 6 morning due to heavy rainfall but resumed later.
According to officials in Srinagar, more than 7500 pilgrims visited the Amarnath cave shrine on July 6, bringing the number of devotees who had darshan of the naturally formed ice lingam to over 1.59 lakhs. The Amarnath Yatra began on June 29 from the twin tracks, the traditional 48km Nunwan Pahalgam route in Anantnag and the 14 km shorter but steeper Baltal route in Ganderbal. They said the Yatra was temporarily suspended on Saturday morning due to heavy rainfall but resumed later.
"On Saturday, 7552 pilgrims performed the yatra and had darshan of Baba Bholenath on the eighth day of the annual yatra," officials said. They said 5019 male pilgrims, 1406 female pilgrims, 118 sadhus and three sadhvis were among those who paid obeisance at the cave shrine. Also, 869 security personnel, three transgender persons and 134 children performed the pilgrimage, they said. With this, the number of pilgrims who have visited the 3800-meter-high cave shrine in the south Kashmir Himalayas has reached 1,59,498 officials.
The deaths of two devotees, a sevadar from Haryana and a pilgrim from Jharkhand, have been reported during this year's Yatra so far. Both of them suffered a cardiac arrest on the Baltal route in June, as per the officials. The 52-day pilgrimage would conclude on August 19; more than 4.5 lakh pilgrims paid obeisance at the cave shrine last year.
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