A Yatri was killed when he was hit by a shooting stone on shortest Baltal route to the holy Amarnath cave shrine this morning, when the 40-day long annual pilgrimage commenced.
Official sources said that 50-year-old Bhushan Kotwal, a resident of Jammu, was seriously injured when he was hit by a shooting stone while he was crossing Brarimag on Baltal-Amarnath Yatra route in central Kashmir district of Ganderbal.