Srinagar, July 3

Five pilgrims have died for the reason that graduation of the Amarnath Yatra this yr, at the same time as over 40,000 devotees have to this point visited the holy cave shrine in south Kashmir Himalayas, officers mentioned on Sunday.

A pilgrim by the title Virinder Gupta is lacking from the yatra’s Chandanwari-Sheshnag route, they mentioned.

Of the 5 deceased, three handed away attributable to cardiac arrests: Jai Prakash from Delhi died at Chandanwari, Devender Tayal (53) from Bareily collapsed at Lower Cave and Lipo Sharma (40) from Bihar died at Qazigund camp, the officers mentioned.

Jagannath (61) from Maharashtra misplaced his life attributable to some well being situation at Pisutop whereas one other individual Ashu Singh (46) from Rajasthan died after he fell down from a horse at MG prime, they talked about.

Till 10 am on Sunday, 40,233 pilgrims visited the holy cave shrine and had ‘darshan’ of the naturally shaped ice-shivlingam.

The yatra, which started on June 30 and can culminate on August 11, passes by means of two routes – the Pahalgam route in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district and the Baltal route in Sonamarg vacationer resort in Ganderbal district in central Kashmir.