A second batch of more than 4,400 pilgrims left the Bhagwati Nagar base camp in Jammu on Saturday in a secured convoy on a pilgrimage to the 3,888-meter-high Amarnath cave shrine.
The pilgrims left the base camp in the morning in a cavalcade of 188 vehicles.
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With this, the number of pilgrims who left for the Amarnath cave shrine from the Jammu base camp climbs to 7,904, officials said.
Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha flagged off the first batch of pilgrims for the annual Amarnath Yatra from the Bhagwati Nagar base camp on Friday.
The 62-day-long pilgrimage commenced from Kashmir on Saturday on the twin tracks the traditional 48-km Nunwan-Pahalgam route in Anantnag district and the shorter but steep 14-km-long Baltal route in Ganderbal district.
