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EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, July 12: In the wake of several accidents on a slippery stretch en route the Amarnath cave shrine, the Jammu and Kashmir governor today deputed an eight-member team of mountaineering experts to assist the movement of pilgrims.
The team from the Jawahar Institute of Mountaineering, Pahalgam was deputed in addition to the 20 state police personnel comprising two mobile rescue teams which have already been deployed to assist the pilgrims between Sheshnag and Poshpathri along the traditional Pahalgam route.
The team was deputed after reports of several accidents on the difficult 5 km stretch between Sangam Top and the shrine, which becomes extremely slippery when the snows start melting, chief executive officer of the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB), RK Goyal said.
Sangam is a point en route to the 3,880m cave shrine where the pilgrims from both the traditional 46 km Pahalgam route in Anantnag district and shortest 16 km Baltal in Ganderbal district meet.
Governor NN Vohra, who is also the chairman of SASB, reviewed all aspects of the ongoing yatra immediately after his return from New Delhi last evening.
He took stock of the various arrangements made for the pilgrims at the base camps, camp locations en route the shrine besides reviewing the security and other arrangements made to facilitate a smooth pilgrimage.
The annual two-month Amarnath yatra commenced from both the routes on July 1 and so far 1,41,232 pilgrims have paid obeisance at the shrine.
Meanwhile, three more Amarnath pilgrims died of cardiac arrest during the yatra since last evening, an official of the yatra control room at Baltal said.
With this, a total of 11 yatris have died since the commencement of the two-month-long pilgrimage since July 1.
Officials said that a yatri, identified as Adit Ram (54), resident of Haryana, died due to cardiac arrest near the holy cave last night. A 46-year-old Vijay Goyal, son of Ram Avtar Goyal, resident of Moti Nagar, Uttar Pradesh also died near the holy cave after suffering massive heart attack.
The official said another pilgrim Surinder Singh, son of Rajinder Singh (41) Sardar Ghat, Parnathpora, also breathed his last near the cave due to cardiac arrest. |
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