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  • Posts Tagged ‘pilgrim’

    Two more Amarnath pilgrims die in Kashmir, toll 22

    India Kashmir Hindu Pilgrimage

    SRINAGAR, July 2: Two more pilgrims, on their way to the Amarnath holy cave shrine in Kashmir, have died, police said Monday. The fresh deaths have taken the toll up to 22 since the pilgrimage started on June 25. Most of the pilgrims died due to cardiac arrest while moving towards the cave shrine which houses the Shivlingam or an ice stalagmite worshipped by the Hindus, 3880-metres up in the Kashmir Himalayas. Police said Anita Chourasiya, 35, from Uttar Pradesh and Sadhu Ram, 34, from Uttrakhand died of heart...

    Posted 326 days ago.

    More than 30 Vaishnodevi pilgrims injured in Kashmir

    vaishno_devi

    REASI, May 9 : Thirty-two Vaishnodevi pilgrims, on their way back to Delhi, were injured when a bus carrying them overturned at Katra in Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir today. The bus skidded off the road and overturned at Moori in Katra belt injuring 32 pilgrims, two of them seriously, police said. The bus was carrying Vaishnodevi pilgrims back to the national capital, they said. The injured were admitted to a hospital at Katra, the base camp for the pilgrimage to the holy cave shrine of Vaishnodevi. The...

    Posted 380 days ago.