At the least 36 Amarnath pilgrims, hailing from totally different states, suffered minor accidents when 5 buses slammed into one another in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district on Saturday, officers stated.
The buses had been a part of a convoy headed for the Pahalgam base camp of the pilgrimage in south Kashmir from Jammu’s Bhagwati Nagar. All of the injured individuals rejoined the yatra after receiving remedy on the Ramban district hospital.
The accident befell close to Chanderkote, alongside the Jammu-Srinagar nationwide freeway, at round 8 am as a result of failure of the brakes of one of many buses within the convoy, the officers stated.
“There was a minor accident at Chanderkote when a Pahalgam-bound automobile collided with different stationary automobiles as a consequence of brake failure,” Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha stated in an announcement. He stated 36 pilgrims obtained minor accidents within the incident. They had been discharged after preliminary remedy and resumed the journey in direction of the three,880-metre cave shrine within the south Kashmir Himalayas, the assertion stated.
“By the blessings of Lord Shiva, all of the devotees are secure,” the LG stated.
“Our precedence is the protection of all pilgrims. Directed the officers involved to implement complete security measures for automobiles of pilgrims endeavor Amarnath Yatra and guarantee security checks in any respect key areas and uninterrupted availability of meals and medicines at Yatra route,” he added.
Earlier, the LG spoke to Jammu Divisional Commissioner Ramesh Kumar and Ramban Deputy Commissioner Mohammad Alyas Khan and requested them to supply all obligatory help to the injured pilgrims.
Sinha had requested senior officers to stay on alert and guarantee all obligatory preparations for a hassle-free journey of the pilgrims, a spokesperson of the Raj Bhavan stated.
The LG applauded the swift response of the district administration and well being officers.
Earlier, the Ramban deputy commissioner stated the final automobile of the Pahalgam convoy misplaced management and hit stranded automobiles on the Chanderkote Langer website, damaging 4 automobiles and inflicting minor accidents to 36 pilgrims.
He stated the federal government officers already current on the website rushed the injured to the district hospital.
A number of senior cops visited the hospital to observe the remedy of the injured and directed the chief medical officer to make sure the perfect care.
“The yatris had been later shifted to different automobiles for his or her onward journey,” the deputy commissioner stated.
Union minister Jitendra Singh stated he spoke to the Ramban deputy commissioner after studying concerning the highway accident.
“…. There is no such thing as a cause for concern. All preparations for the pilgrims are in place and are being continually supervised by the administration,” Singh stated in a submit on X.
Ramban Medical Superintendent Sudarshan Singh Katoch stated 10 of the injured pilgrims had been discharged after being administered first support and the remainder after the conduct of obligatory checks.
“The district administration organized particular automobiles for his or her onward journey to Pahalgam after they expressed their want to proceed the pilgrimage,” he stated.
The convoy left for its vacation spot early within the morning after the broken buses had been changed, the officers stated.
The fourth batch of 6,979 pilgrims — 5,196 males, 1,427 girls, 24 kids, 331 sadhus and sadhvis, and one transgender — left the Bhagwati Nagar base camp in two separate convoys between 3:30 am and 4:05 am.
Whereas 4,226 pilgrims left in 161 automobiles for the Nunwan base camp for the 48-kilometre conventional Pahalgam route, 2,753 pilgrims had been headed for the shorter however steeper 14-kilometre Baltal route in 151 automobiles.
In the meantime, a Central Reserve Police Pressure (CRPF) spokesperson stated the injured pilgrims hailed from Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan.
Together with the Ramban district administration, the cell medical group of the 84 Battalion of the CRPF rushed to the spot, supplied fast medical consideration and helped within the evacuation of the injured pilgrims, he stated.
