Jammu: A fresh batch of 1,050 pilgrims today left for the cave shrine of Amarnath in the south Kashmir Himalayas amidst tight security.

The batch - 696 men, 255 women, five children and 94 sadhus - left in a motorcade of 30 vehicles from Bhagwati Nagar base camp here at 04:40 AM, a police official said.