More than 1.80 lakh pilgrims have performed the Amarnath Yatra over the last two weeks, officials said as another batch of around 5,000 yatris left for the Himalayan shrine on Monday.
In the past 14 days since the pilgrimage started on July 1,a total of 1,82,712 devotees paid obeisance.
A batch of 5,210 pilgrims left Jammu for the valley in twogroups. One with 2,372 pilgrims were headed to the Baltal base camp while 2,838to Pahalgam.
This year’s Amarnath Yatra will end on August 15 coincidingwith the Shravan Purnima festival.