The death toll of CPRF personnel who died in IED blast at Pulwama has risen to 30. a Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into the bus they were travelling in.
PM Modi condemning the attack tweet their sacrifice will not go in vain.
Home Minister Rajnath Singh, finance minister Arun Jaitley, Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti have condemned the attack. Home minister is arriving in Srinagar tomorrow.
It’s one of the worst terror strikes in the state in recent years. Police said the terrorist driving the suicide vehicle was Adil Ahmad from Kakapora in Pulwama who joined the JeM in 2018.
More than 2,500 Central Reserve Police Force personnel, many of them returning from leave to rejoin duty in the Valley, were travelling in the convoy of 78 vehicles when they were ambushed on the Srinagar-Jammu highway at Latoomode in Awantipora. 30 km from Srinagar
The casualties are likely to go up.
CRPF DG R R Bhatnagar said some shots were also fired at the convoy
Over 20 people were injured in the terror attack, which reduced the bus to a mangled heap of iron. Several other buses were damaged in the attack.
Body parts could be seen strewn around the area.
