Over 29,000 pilgrims have paid obeisance at the Amaranth cave shrine in south Kashmir in the first three days of the annual pilgrimage while a man from West Bengal died today due to cardiac arrest taking the death toll in the ongoing yatra to three. On the third day of the pilgrimage, 14,953 pilgrims offered prayers at the cave shrine raising the total number to 29,182, an official spokesperson said. A 72-year-old pilgrim from West Bengal died today due to cardiac arrest en route to the cave shrine, taking the death toll in the ongoing yatra to three. A K Mukherji, a resident of Howrah, died due to cardiac arrest at Poshpathri, this morning, a police official said. A pilgrim from Jammu was killed by a shooting stone at Brarimarg on June 29 while an ASI of the ITBP suffered cardiac arrest at same place a day earlier.

Source: dna July 01, 2017 16:41 UTC