Jammu: The police has foiled a plan to disrupt the Amarnath yatra with the recovery of 20 kg of RDX near a railway track in Sapowal area of Jammu division even as 22,000 pilgrims were en route to the cave shrine of Amarnath in south Kashmir.

The police said the explosives were dumped near the railway track with a view to disrupting the yatra (pilgrimage) and to create law and order problems in Jammu.

It said the bag containing 20 kgs of RDX, time bomb pencils and 14 detonators was seized from the banks of Basantar river close to the railway track in Sapowal area after a local youth informed the police about it.

Meanwhile, another batch of 4,271 pilgrims on Monday left Jammu for Pahalgam, the base camp for the pilgrimage.