SRINAGAR – As many as 40 CRPF jawans were martyred in Jammu and Kashmir’sPulwama district on Thursday when a Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist rammed anexplosive-laden vehicle into the bus they were travelling in, officialssaid. The terror group has claimed responsibility for the cowardly attack.
Police identified the terrorist as Adil Ahmad from Kakapora in Pulwama. Hejoined the Jaish-Mohammed in 2018. The casualties are likely to goup. Several people were injured in the terror attack, which reduced the busto a mangled heap of iron. Body parts could be strewn around the area.
The vehicle was blown up on the Srinagar-Jammu highway in Awantipora areaof the district, a police official said.
This is now the biggest militant attacks in Kashmir against security forcesin the last two decades.
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In 2001, JeM carried out a suicide bomb attack outside the Srinagarsecretariat killing 38 people and injuring 40. This attack is also biggerthan the Uri attack in 2016 where 19 army men were killed.
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