Attacks on Amarnath Yatra
This report is based on the terrorist attacks on Amarnath Yatra from 1993 to 2024. On this day, 15 August 1993, eight pilgrims were killed while going towards the Amarnath cave in Jammu and Kashmir. In this report, we have added 11 similar terrorist incidents on Amarnath Yatra.
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| 1 | 01-07-2024 | Amarnath Yatra के बीच आतंकी साजिश नाकाम, बारामूला में पकड़ा गया आतंकवादी सहयोगी | घाटी में आतंकी साजिश को नाकाम करते हुए सुरक्षाबलों ने आतंकवादी सहयोगी वहीद उल जहूर को गिरफ्तार किया।आरोपी रफियाबाद इलाके का निवासी है। पुलिस, सेना और केंद्रीय रिजर्व पुलिस बल (सीआरपीएफ) के जवानों ने 30 जून, 2024 देर रात सोपोर के बोमई इलाके के माचीपोरा में एक संयुक्त चौकी स्थापित की। चेकिंग के दौरान चालक ने भागने की कोशिश की, लेकिन सतर्क दल ने उसे पकड़ लिया। अधिकारियों ने कहा कि वाहन से दो तुर्की निर्मित पिस्तौल, तीन मैगजीन, 41 राउंड, एक साइलेंसर, दो चीन निर्मित ग्रेनेड और तात्कालिक विस्फोटक उपकरण बनाने की सामग्री जब्त की गई है। |
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| 2 | 07-05-2022 | J&K policeman suffers serious injuries as terrorists open fire at Srinagar brige | A policeman was seriously injured on Saturday( May 07, 2022) morning when terrorists opened fire at Srinagar's Aiwa Bridge. "Around 8:40 am, terrorists fired at and critically injured Jammu and Kashmir Police constable Ghulam Hassan near Aiwa Bridge in Safakadal area of the city," a police official said. The attack on the security personnel comes a day after top Hizbul Mujahideen commander Ashraf Molvi and his two associates were shot dead near the route of the annual Amarnath Yatra, in Jammu & Kashmir’s Anantnag district. “Ashraf Molvi along with two other terrorists were killed. Successful operation on the yatra route is a major success for us,” Inspector General of Police (Kashmir) Vijay Kumar tweeted. He was also on the list of top 10 most-wanted terrorists. |
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| 3 | 25-03-2022 | Detention of ‘activist’ Khurram Parvez, who dubbed Amarnath Yatra ‘militarised pilgrimage’, extended by 50 days: Here is what you need to know | Parvez is the founder of the Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS), which has a history of propagating anti-India narratives in Jammu and Kashmir. JKCCS, in collaboration with Bangalore based Equitable Tourism Options (Equations), had published a controversial report in 2017, titled “Amarnath Yatra: A Militarized Pilgrimage”. In the report, Parvez and other writers had tried to downplay the religious significance of ‘Amarnath Yatra’.It claimed that the Hindu pilgrimage is a ‘political yatra’ and allegedly a ‘manifestation of Hindutva nationalist movement. ’“In the initial 140 years or so of the Yatra’s existence, it seems to have stabilised and became a matter of routine, with not too much of an impact on the people of Kashmir. In 1985, with the resurgence of the Hindu right-wing and the Ram Janmabhoomi campaign, several shrines attracted the attention of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and especially, one of its subsidiary organisations, the Bajrang Dal, which were used to revive a fundamentalist form of Hinduism,” the report had claimed. | |
| 4 | 10-07-2017 | Amarnath Yatra 2017: 10 जुलाई 2017 का वो काला दिन जब पवित्र यात्रा पर हुआ आतंकी हमला, 7 शिव भक्तों ने गंवाई थी जान | श्रीनगर-जम्मू राष्ट्रीय राजमार्ग पर अनंतनाग के निकट बोटेंगो गांव में 56 यात्रियों को ले जा रही एक बस पर आतंकवादियों द्वारा किये गए हमले में 8 अमरनाथ तीर्थयात्री मारे गए और 18 घायल हो गए।तीर्थयात्री ज्यादातर भारतीय राज्य गुजरात के थे। जुलाई-अगस्त में होने वाली 48 दिवसीय वार्षिक हिंदू तीर्थयात्रा, जिसमें 600,000 या उससे अधिक तीर्थयात्री हिमालय में 12,756 फीट (3,888 मीटर) की ऊंचाई पर बर्फ से ढके शिव लिंग के 130 फीट (40 मीटर) ऊंचे हिमनद अमरनाथ गुफा मंदिर तक जाते हैं, जो अमरनाथ यात्रा कहलाती है। यह यात्रा पहलगाम में नुनवान और चंदनवारी बेस कैंप से 43 किलोमीटर (27 मील) की पहाड़ी चढ़ाई से शुरू होती है और शेषनाग झील और पंचतरणी कैंपों में रात्रि विश्राम के बाद गुफा-मंदिर तक पहुँचती है। |
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| 5 | 21-07-2006 | Amarnath attack 2006: Militants attack Amarnath pilgrims, 5 hurt | 5 devotees hailing from Rajasthan were injured when a militant group attack their bus with a grenade near Beehama. The bus was returning from Baltal, the base camp for Amarnath yatra and was carrying 40 passengers. Officials said the bus, carrying 40 passengers, was returning to Srinagar from Baltal base camp. |
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| 6 | 06-08-2002 | Amarnath Yatra attack 2002: 8 persons were killed and 30 injured | Terrorists attacked the Nunwan base camp near Pahalgam, killing nine people, including six pilgrims and three civilians. The attack was carried out by Lashkar-e-Taiba militants. In the spate of attacks on Yatra in the third consecutive year, 2 pilgrims were killed and 3 injured on 30 July when terrorists threw grenades at a civilian taxi of pilgrims in Srinagar. This attack on Amarnath yatra was part of the larger 1st and 2nd August 2000 Kashmir massacre in 5 separate coordinated terrorist attacks that killed at least 89 (official count) to 105 people (as reported by PTI), and injured at least 62 more. |
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| 7 | 20-07-2001 | Amarnath Yatra attack 2001: 6 pilgrims among 13 killed in 2 blasts | On 20 July 2001, in the month of Shraavana, 13 people were killed and 15 other injured in a terror attack on a pilgrim night camp at Sheshnag Lake near the Amarnath Temple glacial cave shrine in Kashmir Valley in Jammu and Kashmir, in two explosions and firing by terrorists. In a pre-dawn attack, terrorists penetrated several layers of security cordon and exploded two improvised explosive devices (lEDs), casualties included 8 Hindu civilian pilgrims entailing 2 women, and 3 Muslim civilians and 2 security personnel. This attack on Amarnath yatra was part of the larger 1st and 2nd August 2000 Kashmir massacre in 5 separate coordinated terrorist attacks that killed at least 89 (official count) to 105 people (as reported by PTI), and injured at least 62 more. |
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| 8 | 02-08-2000 | Amarnath Yatra attack 2000:: 26 years, 14 attacks, 68 deaths | On 1 and 2 August 2000, terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba (LET) attacked the Amarnath Yatra in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, killing 89 to 105 people. 62 people were injured in the attack. On August 2, 2000, terrorists killed 21 Hindu pilgrims. The pilgrims were going to the Amarnath cave temple on an annual pilgrimage. At least 13 people were killed and 15 others injured when a militant hurled grenades at a camp and later fired indiscriminately near the Amarnath cave on 20 July, On 20 July 2001, terrorists attacked a pilgrim night camp at Sheshnag Lake near the Amarnath Temple Glacier Cave Temple in the Kashmir Valley, killing 13 people and seriously injuring 15 people. In 2006, terrorists again targeted the Amarnath Yatra and threw a grenade on a bus carrying pilgrims. In which one devotee died. Nearly 11 years after the 2006 attack, on 10 July 2017, terrorists opened indiscriminate fire on a bus of Amarnath pilgrims. In which 7 Amarnath pilgrims died and 32 people were injured. |
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| 9 | 28-07-1998 | Amarnath attack 1998: 10 Amarnath Pilgrimage Terror Attacks In Jammu And Kashmir | Terrorists attacked a group of Amarnath pilgrims, resulting in the deaths of 20 people. The attack took place at the Sheshnag campsite, a resting point for pilgrims on their way to the Amarnath cave. Amarnath Temple is a Hindu shrine located in the Pahalgam tehsil of the Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir, India. The 2000 Amarnath pilgrimage attack on 1 and 2 August was the massacre of at least 89 to 105 people and injury to at least 62 people, in at least five different coordinated attacks by Islamist militants in Anantnag district and Doda district of Indian administered Kashmir. |
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| 10 | 10-08-1994 | Amarnath attack 1994: terrorists killed 5 pilgrims in Pahalgam. | On August 2, terrorists killed five pilgrims and injured several others at the Amarnath Yatra base camp in Pahalgam. This attack was one of the early instances targeting the pilgrimage, which has since seen repeated violence. The Amarnath pilgrimage was suspended in July 2016 due to the Kashmir unrest. Some Sufis and Shias later demanded resumption of the Yatra. |
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| 11 | 15-08-1993 | Amarnath attack 1993: Terror attacks on Amarnath Yatris Read | Terrorists attacked a convoy of pilgrims enroute to the Amarnath shrine killing 8 people. The attack highlighted the increasing risk faced by pilgrims during the annual yatra. According to legend, Sage Bhrigu was the first to discover Amarnath. A long time ago, it is believed that the Valley of Kashmir was underwater, and Sage Kashyapa drained it through a series of rivers and rivulets. |
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