36 Pilgrims Injured in Collision Between Amarnath Yatra Buses in J&K’s Ramban

36 Amarnath Pilgrims Injured as Bus Rams Vehicles in J&K’s Ramban District.

At least 36 Amarnath pilgrims were injured on Saturday after a bus in the Pahalgam-bound convoy lost control and crashed into multiple stranded vehicles near the Chanderkot Langer site in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district, officials confirmed.

The incident occurred when the last bus in the convoy collided with four parked vehicles, damaging them and injuring the passengers. Emergency teams from the police and health departments, already stationed nearby, acted swiftly to rescue the injured and transport them to District Hospital Ramban for medical care.

Deputy Commissioner of Ramban, Mohammad Aiyaz, posted on X (formerly Twitter), “The last vehicle of the Pahalgam convoy lost control and hit stranded vehicles at the Chanderkot Langer site, damaging 4 vehicles and causing minor injuries to 36 Yatris. The District Administration, already present at the site, immediately shifted the injured to DH Ramban. The Yatris were later shifted to other vehicles for their onward journey.”

Union Minister Jitendra Singh also responded to the incident, assuring the public that there was no cause for concern. “36 pilgrims sustained minor injuries, which are being attended to at District Hospital Ramban. All arrangements for the pilgrims are in place and under constant supervision by the administration,” he said in a post on X.

The 38-day Amarnath Yatra began on July 3 and will conclude on August 9, coinciding with Shravan Purnima and Raksha Bandhan. Pilgrims undertake the journey to the 3,888-metre-high cave shrine in the Himalayas via either the traditional Pahalgam route or the shorter Baltal route.

On the same day, another batch of 6,979 pilgrims departed from Jammu toward the Kashmir Valley in two escorted convoys. Of them, 2,753 pilgrims are heading to the Baltal base camp, while 4,226 are en route to the Nunwan (Pahalgam) base camp. Over 26,800 pilgrims have had darshan at the cave shrine in the first two days of the Yatra.