Amid multi-tier security, the 40-day long yatra began from Jammu on June 28.
The Amarnath
yatra has been suspended from Jammu today due to law and order situation in the Kashmir Valley. Authorities clamped curfew in three towns, including Tral in Kashmir, and imposed restrictions on the movement of people in the rest of the Valley.
"The yatra has been been suspended from the Bhagwati Nagar base camp in Jammu due to law and order situation in the Kashmir Valley," a senior police officer said.
Police and paramilitary personnel were deployed in huge numbers across Kashmir to handle any security challenge. The number of pilgrims paying obeisance at the shrine of Lord Shiva at the 3,880-metre high cave shrine of Amarnath in South Kashmir has crossed the one-lakh mark as over 1.15 lakh devotees had
darshan at the shrine.
The yatra is continuing from two routes -- Baltal and Pahalgam base camps. A total of 25,294 pilgrims and priests have left Jammu for Amarnath in eight batches since the yatra began. Nine people including a security officer have died in the ongoing Amarnath pilgrimage.
"As many as 1,15,841 pilgrims have had darshan at the cave shrine since the beginning of the yatra," an official spokesman said.
Amid multi-tier security, the 40-day long yatra began from Jammu on June 28 as the first batch of pilgrims left for the shrine. The annual yatra in Kashmir began amid a terror threat, according to an intelligence warning which has prompted the authorities to mobilise the "highest level" of security measures, including satellite tracking system.